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surrogate

nounCommon GRE wordMore S words

a substitute that takes the place of another

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Surrogate in a sentence

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The mentor became a surrogate father to the orphaned boy.

Synonyms
substitutestand-inproxy
Antonyms
originalprincipal

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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence

The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.

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Questions about “surrogate”

Surrogate (noun) means a substitute that takes the place of another
Here is surrogate used in an example sentence: "The mentor became a surrogate father to the orphaned boy."
Common synonyms for surrogate include substitute, stand-in, proxy.
Antonyms of surrogate include original, principal.
Surrogate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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