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viscous

adjectiveCommon GRE wordMore V words

having a thick, sticky consistency that flows slowly

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Viscous in a sentence

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The viscous oil oozed slowly from the cracked container.

Synonyms
thickstickyglueysyrupy
Antonyms
runnythin

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Verbal · Text Completion

The novelist's late style is admired precisely for its blank: every superfluous phrase has been pared away, leaving prose of startling economy.

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Viscous (adjective) means having a thick, sticky consistency that flows slowly
Here is viscous used in an example sentence: "The viscous oil oozed slowly from the cracked container."
Common synonyms for viscous include thick, sticky, gluey, syrupy.
Antonyms of viscous include runny, thin.
Viscous is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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