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soporific
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sleep-causing
his boring lectures were soporific |
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specious
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seemingly reasonable but incorrect and misleading
specious reasoning SUSPECIOUS |
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stint
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be thrifty; set limits; skimp on
we saved money by stinting on food |
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stolid
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dull; impassive
his stolid demeanor |
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striated
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marked with parallel grooves
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strut
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supporting bar
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tenuous
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thin; rare; slim
they held on by tenuous ties |
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tortuous
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winding; full of curves
a tortuous road |
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torpor
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lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy
apathetic torpor |
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tractable
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docile; easily managed
tractable dogs are well trained TRACKtable |
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truculence
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aggressiveness; ferocity
his days of truculent defiance are over TRUCKulence |
