Slog

Definitions

1. A long, tedious walk or march.
   Australia, British, Canada, countable, uncountable
2. A hard, persistent effort, session of work, or period.
   Australia, British, Canada, broadly, countable, uncountable
3. A book or other media that is difficult to get through due to dullness, density, or lack of narrative momentum.
   countable
4. An aggressive shot played with little skill.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“It is as if Mr. Faulks had bled his own⟳ prose white, draining it of emotion in order⟳ to capture⟳ the endless enervating slog of war.”

“England's experimental line-up will have⟳ realised early on that this would be a long, hard slog against the multi-talented Brazilians with great strength in their starting line-up and on the bench.”

“There, despite the long slog of the pandemic and all the distracting dramas at headquarters, the schools themselves have⟳ mostly kept it together.”

“Alsup wrote that Anthropic preferred to “steal⟳” books to “avoid⟳ ‘legal/practice/business slog,’ as cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei put⟳ it.””

CEFR level