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Berate
is an SAT word you need to know.
So is superlative. Does it mean:
| of the highest kind, quality, or order |
| concerned with mere style or effect; tending to use bombast |
Example Sentences
- She has been known to berate tabloid reporters for working for publications that stalk her and her daughter.
- After she failed a series of sobriety tests, the report said, the actress began to berate the officers as she was being arrested.
- Slang To berate; scold.
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Word Origin & History
berate
1540s, from be- "thoroughly" + M.E. rate "to scold," from O.Fr. reter "accuse, blame," from L. reputare (see reputation). "Obsolete except in U.S." [OED 1st ed.], but it seems to have revived in Britain 20c.
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