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bovine

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore B words

sluggish, dull, or placid like cattle

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Bovine in a sentence

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He stared back with a bovine calm that infuriated his critics.

Antonyms
livelyspirited

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Once a blank supporter of the policy, the governor now denounces it at every opportunity, embarrassed that she ever endorsed it.

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Bovine (adjective) means sluggish, dull, or placid like cattle
Here is bovine used in an example sentence: "He stared back with a bovine calm that infuriated his critics."
Common synonyms for bovine include dull, stolid, placid, sluggish.
Antonyms of bovine include lively, spirited.
Bovine is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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