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Six example sentences with laconic, each labelled with its topic.
Their coach is famously laconic, answering a five minute question about strategy with a nod and one syllable.
Basketball
The exhibition captions were laconic, offering only a place and a year beneath each enormous black and white print.
Photography
The judge stayed laconic through the whole hearing, then delivered a ruling that ran to ninety careful pages.
Law
The western's laconic hero says maybe forty words in two hours, and every one of them lands.
Movies
The error message was laconic, a single word, and the engineers spent an afternoon guessing what it meant.
Technology
The chief executive's laconic reply to the merger question was two words, and the room read them for an hour.
Business
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Found in 11 published word listsRecognized
- Barron's 333 GRE High-Frequency Words
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)
- Manhattan Prep 1000 GRE Words
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)
- Magoosh GRE 1000
- PrepScholar 357 GRE Words
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)
- PowerScore GRE Repeat Offenders (699)
- GregMat 960 GRE Words
- MajorTests SAT 1000
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT Words
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