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sluggish

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore S words

slow-moving or lacking energy and alertness

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Sluggish in a sentence

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The economy remained sluggish through the winter months.

Antonyms
briskenergetic

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Verbal · Text Completion

The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Sluggish (adjective) means slow-moving or lacking energy and alertness
Here is sluggish used in an example sentence: "The economy remained sluggish through the winter months."
Common synonyms for sluggish include lethargic, torpid, listless.
Antonyms of sluggish include brisk, energetic.
Sluggish is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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