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vapid |
lacking liveliness, animation, or interest; dull |
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soporific |
inducing or tending to induce sleep |
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prosaic |
unimaginative; dull |
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insipid |
uninteresting; not challenging; lacking taste or savor |
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hackneyed |
worn out through overuse; trite |
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banal |
drearily commonplace; predictable; trite |
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austere |
without decoration; strict |
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prescience |
knowledge of actions/ events before they occur; foreknowledge; foresight |
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onerous |
troublesome or oppressive; burdensome |
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portent |
indication of something important or calamitous; about to occur; omen |
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temporal |
of; relating to; limited by time |
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redolent |
fragrant; aromatic; suggestive |
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ephemeral |
lasting for only a brief time |
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debacle |
disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco |
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debilitate |
impair the strength of; weaken |
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tumultuous |
noisy and disorderly |
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anachronistic |
the representation of something as existing or happening in the wrong time period |
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archaic |
characteristic of an earlier time; antiquated; old |
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dilatory |
habitually late |
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ingenuous |
lacking in cunning, guile, or worldliness |
antonym: disingenuous |
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subterfuge |
deceptive stratagem or device |
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dearth |
scarce supply; lack |
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modium |
small, moderate, or token amount |
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paucity |
smallness in number; scarcity |
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squander |
to spend wastefully |
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temperate |
moderate; restrained |
antonym: intemperate |
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tenuous |
having little substance or strength; shaky |
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maverick |
one who is independent and restrains adherence to a group |
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mercenary |
motivated solely by a desire for money or material gain |
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obstinate |
stubbornly attached to an opinion or course of action |
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proliferate |
to grow or increase rapidly |
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tenacity |
persistence |
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vigilant |
on the alert; watchful |
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juxtapose |
to place side by side; especially for comparison/contrast |
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superfluous |
extra; unnecessary |
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synergy |
combined action or operation |
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tangential |
merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant |
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aural |
of or relating to the ear or the sense of hearing |
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cacophony |
discordant, unpleasant noise |
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dirge |
funeral hymn or lament |
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eclectic |
made up of a variety of sources or styles |
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incongruous |
lacking in harmony; incompatible |
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sonorous |
producing a deep or full sound |
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strident |
loud, harsh, grating, or shrill |
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