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loafer

nounCommon GRE wordMore L words

a person who avoids work and spends time in idle leisure

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Loafer in a sentence

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His father called him a loafer for spending all summer doing nothing productive.

Synonyms
idlerslackerlayaboutsluggard
Antonyms
workerstriver

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Verbal · Text Completion

The committee's report was praised for its candor, yet its central recommendation was so blank that administrators could cite it to justify nearly any policy they had already resolved to pursue.

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Loafer (noun) means a person who avoids work and spends time in idle leisure
Here is loafer used in an example sentence: "His father called him a loafer for spending all summer doing nothing productive."
Common synonyms for loafer include idler, slacker, layabout, sluggard.
Antonyms of loafer include worker, striver.
Loafer is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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