Perfunctory- automatic ; unthinking; without expression
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Perfunctory- automatic; unthinking; without expression
To have everything completed for them, the humans had robots that were your typical
perfunctory machine, completing assigned tasks for them.
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Meticulous- taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough
To cut his grass meticulously, Mr. Rogers must use scissors, making each and every strand of grass the
exact same length.
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Lament- to express grief for or about; deplore; mourn
To see Denise lamenting over her breakup with her boyfriend, her friends couldn’t help, but to be there for her.
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Paraphernalia-furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity; equipment; supplies
To practice for softball, the team must bring various amounts of paraphernalia such as bats, bases, softballs, water and
helmets.
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Despotic- repressive; authoritarian; domineering
To quit from being told what to do and what not to do, he grew up into a despotic, cruel man, allowing no one to boss him around.
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Tangible- real; concreteTo have a wild imagination, you’d
have to release all tangible thoughts, believing in the
impossible.
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Sensuous- gratifying to senses; pleasurable; luxurious
To smell the perfumed flowers of may, it’s so sensuous that it instantaneously covers me with an invisible, soothing cloak of warmth.
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Prima Donna- indicating the most important performer or
role; star; divaTo be a prima donna, it took Celine
Dion a copious amount of labor, dedication, and determination.
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Garrulous- talkative; wordy; excessively talkative
To simply hinder a person from becoming highly garrulous, rip off a piece of duck tape, then place it over
their mouth.
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Syntax- the way in which words are arranged; order; structure
Mush Mouth, to be honest, had a horrific problem with syntax that
whenever he spoke, the words he’d say wouldn’t come out correctly.
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Sagacity- wisdom; intelligence; knowledge
To be considered as the smartest man that ever lived, Albert Einstein contained an
immense amount of sagacity, stored away within his head.
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Ravenous- extremely hungry; starving; famished
To eat another human being, I’d have to be a walking skeleton, overly
ravenous for anything that appears edible.
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Parsimonious- frugal or stingy; penny-pinching; tightfisted
To be the ultimate scrooge, you’d have to have a parsimonious, cold
heart.
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Virulent- highly deadly; poisonous; lethal
To watch the news about countless men dying out at war, shooting virulent weapons on a daily basis, causes me to have empathy for
them, as well as their families.