Revealing Meaning
/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjInformative.
adjInformative; providing new information.
Sentence Examples
The public servant leaked the secret and he was prosecuted for revealing a state secret.
She complained that the picture was too revealing.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The documentary was very ____, showing secrets that were never known before.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The interview was surprisingly ____, with the politician admitting mistakes she had previously denied.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English reveling; equivalent to reveal + -ing.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.”"
— 2019 July 24, David Austin Walsh, “Flirting With Fascism”, in Jewish Currents:
"In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind[…]"
— 1836, William Tait, Mrs. Christian Isobel Johnstone, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 3, page 113:
"She paused a moment; while vaguely to his secret self Pierre revolved these strange revealings; but now he was all attention again as Isabel resumed."
— 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The documentary was very ____, showing secrets that were never known before.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The interview was surprisingly ____, with the politician admitting mistakes she had previously denied.