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Things humdrum often describes ("humdrum ________")
- career
- work
- toil
- job
- course
- marriage
- virtues
- realities
- pursuits
- jobs
- lot
- practice
- business
- village
- days
- monotony
- aspects
- manner
- place
- occupations
- grind
- tasks
- present
- routine
- experiences
- respectability
- experience
- way
- things
- affairs
- domesticity
- chores
- lives
- surroundings
- virtue
- round
- minds
- affair
- quality
- activities
- occupation
- matters
- atmosphere
- duty
- truth
- kind
- living
- age
- realism
- habits
- town
- circumstances
- nature
- style
- existence
- level
- ways
- life
- details
- existences
- task
- sermon
- concerns
- fashion
- drudgery
- repetition
- routines
- events
- crone
- sort
- stuff
- world
- reality
- people
- facts
- duties
- detail
How humdrum often is described ("________ humdrum")
- orderly
- regular
- stupid
- vulgar
- uncreative
- ever
- dull
- most
- old
- deadly
- dreary
- more
- less
- steady
- common
- monotonous
- normal
- slow
- dear
- ordinary
- terrestrial
- little
- inaudible
- quiet
- quite
- usual
- drab
- tedious
- delicate
- mere
- pretty
- daily
- routine
- welcome
- domestic
- ecclesiastical
- tame
- narrow
- actual
- day
- prosaic
- severest
- meditative
- everyday
- amused
- stale
- spiritless
- petty
- clerical
- plain
- last
