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Six example sentences with perfunctory, each labelled with its topic.
The manager's perfunctory nod at the safety briefing told everyone he had already decided to skip the drill.
Business
A perfunctory exam missed the swelling entirely, so the clinic now requires every knee complaint to be measured and recorded.
Medicine
Her perfunctory sketch of the harbor took four minutes, while the finished canvas beside it had absorbed two years.
Art
The defense was perfunctory in the fourth quarter, and the visiting guard walked into the lane for easy layups.
Basketball
The minister offered a perfunctory apology of two sentences and moved on to the next item without looking up.
Politics
The encore felt perfunctory, one short song played at speed while the crew already dismantled the drums.
Music
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- 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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