‘Know all this to answer the question? No—all you need to know is that ‘something like criticize. And in the time it took you to learn the ‘Meaning of the dictionary,you could have memorized a wholelist of other words that also like criticize (aspersion, belitle, berate, calumny, casigate, decry, defamation, isive, diatribe, rebuke, etcetera). answer to the above question? Well, that would be drawn from the lst of words that raise (aclaim, accolade, aggrandize, encomium, eulogize, extol, fawn, laud/laudatory, ‘Wenerate/veneration, etcetera.) ‘This is why learning words in groups is a better general strategy for beefing up your GRE vocabulary than working slowly through the dictionary. Just remember, the categories in which these words are listed are GENERAL and not to be taken for the exact definitions of the words. 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