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gawky

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore G words

awkwardly tall and ungainly in movement

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Gawky in a sentence

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The gawky adolescent tripped over his own feet, still unused to his sudden height.

Synonyms
ungainlyclumsylankyungraceful
Antonyms
gracefullithenimble

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Although the senator's memoir was marketed as a frank reckoning with his failures, reviewers found it relentlessly blank, dwelling on grievances and recasting every setback as the fault of his adversaries.

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Gawky (adjective) means awkwardly tall and ungainly in movement
Here is gawky used in an example sentence: "The gawky adolescent tripped over his own feet, still unused to his sudden height."
Common synonyms for gawky include ungainly, clumsy, lanky, ungraceful.
Antonyms of gawky include graceful, lithe, nimble.
Gawky is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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