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spry

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore S words

active, nimble, and energetic, especially when older

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Spry in a sentence

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At ninety, she was still remarkably spry.

Synonyms
nimbleagilesprightly
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Verbal · Text Completion

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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Spry (adjective) means active, nimble, and energetic, especially when older
Here is spry used in an example sentence: "At ninety, she was still remarkably spry."
Common synonyms for spry include nimble, agile, sprightly.
Antonyms of spry include sluggish, frail.
Spry is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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