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Main Entry:	routine
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	habitual
Synonyms:	accepted, accustomed, chronic, conventional, customary, everyday, familiar, general, methodical, normal, ordinary, periodic, plain, quotidian, regular, standard, typical, usual, wonted, seasonal, unremarkable, workaday
Antonyms:	breaking, different, original, unusual, untraditional

Main Entry:	routine
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	habitual activity
Synonyms:	act, bit, custom, cycle, daily grind, drill, formula, grind, groove, habit, line, method, order, pace, pattern, piece, practice, procedure, program, rat race, rote, round, rut, spiel, system, tack, technique, usage, way, wont, beaten path, channels, schtick, treadmill
Antonyms:	break, excitement, unusual

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Main Entry:	behavior
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	manner of conducting oneself
Synonyms:	act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done

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Main Entry:	boring
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	uninteresting
Synonyms:	arid, bomb, bummer, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead, drab, drag, dull, flat, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, vapid, wearisome, zero*, bromidic, characterless, drudging, ho hum, nowhere, platitudinous, unvaried, well-worn
Antonyms:	exciting, fascinating, interesting

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Main Entry:	businesslike
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	efficient, professional
Synonyms:	accomplished, careful, concentrated, correct, diligent, direct, earnest, effective, enterprising, expeditious, hardworking, industrious, intent, matter-of-fact, methodical, orderly, organized, painstaking, practical, practiced, purposeful, regular, routine, sedulous, serious, skillful, systematic, thorough, disciplined, well-ordered, workaday
Antonyms:	amateur, disorganized, inefficient, unprofessional, unbusinesslike

Main Entry:	chore
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	task
Synonyms:	assignment, burden, duty, effort, errand, grind, housework, job, routine, stint, trial, tribulation, workout, KP, devoir, scutwork

Main Entry:	chronic
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	incessant, never-ending
Synonyms:	abiding, ceaseless, confirmed, constant, continual, continuing, continuous, deep-rooted, deep-seated, enduring, fixed, habitual, inborn, inbred, incurable, ingrained, inveterate, lasting, lifelong, long-standing, obstinate, perennial, persistent, prolonged, recurrent, rooted, routine, settled, stubborn, sustained, tenacious, unmitigated, unyielding, usual, ever-present, ineradicable, lingering, long-lived, persisting, protracted, recurring, unabating
Notes:	acute is used for a sudden onset and short duration; chronic is for conditions that are slow to develop and of long duration chronic is contrasted with acute as chronic pain persists over a longer period of time than acute pain and is resistant to most medical treatments
Antonyms:	curable, intermittent, occasional, temporary, eradicable

Main Entry:	customary
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	usual, established
Synonyms:	SOP, accepted, according to Hoyle, accustomed, acknowledged, by the numbers, chronic, common, confirmed, conventional, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, frequent, general, habitual, household, normal, ordinary, orthodox, popular, prescriptive, recognized, regular, regulation, routine, standard, standard operating procedure, traditional, understood, universal, wonted, in a rut, in the groove, playing it safe, same old, stipulated
Antonyms:	abnormal, different, irregular, occasional, rare, sometime, unusual

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Main Entry:	daily
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	occurring every day; during the day
Synonyms:	common, commonplace, constantly, day after day, everyday, often, ordinary, per diem, periodic, quotidian, regular, regularly, routine, circadian, cyclic, day by day, day-to-day, diurnal, from day to day, once a day, once daily
Antonyms:	nightly, nocturnal, at night

Main Entry:	dreary
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	gloomy, lifeless
Synonyms:	black, blah, bleak, boring, cheerless, colorless, damp, depressing, dingy, dismal, doleful, downcast, drab, dull, forlorn, funereal, glum, humdrum, joyless, lonely, lonesome, melancholy, monotonous, mournful, oppressive, pedestrian, raw, routine, sad, somber, sorrowful, tedious, uneventful, uninteresting, wearisome, windy, wintry, wretched, comfortless, depressive, dispiriting
Antonyms:	bright, clear, happy, light, pleasant

Main Entry:	evasion
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	escape, avoidance
Synonyms:	artifice, cunning, ditch, dodge, equivocation, evasiveness, excuse, lie, pretext, prevarication, quibble, routine, run-around, ruse, shift, slip, sophism, sophistry, stall, stonewall, subterfuge, trick, trickery, circumvention, cop-out, dodging, elusion, equivocating, eschewal, evading, fancy footwork, fudging, fugiviteness, fugivity, jive, obliqueness, shirking, shuffling, shunning
Antonyms:	facing, meeting, directness

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Main Entry:	everyday
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	common
Synonyms:	accustomed, average, commonplace, conventional, customary, daily, dime a dozen, dull, familiar, frequent, habitual, informal, lowly, mainstream, middle-of-the-road, mundane, normal, ordinary, per diem, plain, prosaic, quotidian, routine, run-of-the-mill, stock, unexceptional, unimaginative, usual, vanilla*, wonted, garden variety, unremarkable, whitebread, workaday
Antonyms:	abnormal, different, exceptional, special, uncommon, unexpected, unfamiliar, unusual

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Main Entry:	excuse
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	reason, explanation
Synonyms:	alibi, apology, cover, defense, disguise, evasion, expedient, extenuation, fish story, grounds, justification, makeshift, mitigation, plea, pretext, routine, semblance, shift, song, song and dance, stall, stopgap, story, substitute, subterfuge, trick, vindication, whitewash, cleanup, cop-out, cover story, coverup, jive, rationalization, regrets, why and wherefore

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Main Entry:	grind
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	tedious job
Synonyms:	chore, drudgery, groove, hard work, labor, pace, rote, routine, rut, sweat*, task, toil, travail, grubwork, moil, treadmill

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Main Entry:	habitual
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	usual, established
Synonyms:	accepted, accustomed, addicted, automatic, chronic, common, confirmed, constant, continual, conventional, customary, familiar, fixed, frequent, hardened, ingrained, inveterate, mechanical, methodical, natural, normal, ordinary, perfunctory, permanent, perpetual, persistent, practiced, recurrent, regular, repeated, repetitious, rooted, routine, seasoned, set, standard, steady, systematic, traditional, wonted, addicting, cyclic, disciplined, iterated, iterative, reiterative
Antonyms:	infrequent, intermittent, occasional, rare, seldom, uncommon, unusual, inhabitual, unestablished

Main Entry:	humdrum
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	boring, uneventful
Synonyms:	arid, blah, common, commonplace, dim, dime a dozen, drab, dreary, dull, everyday, insipid, lifeless, monotonous, mundane, ordinary, pedestrian, repetitious, routine, tedious, tiresome, uninteresting, vanilla*, wearisome, banausic, bromidic, garden-variety, monotone, plodding, prosy, toneless, treadmill, unvaried, white-bread
Antonyms:	busy, eventful, exciting, lively, unusual

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Main Entry:	mechanical
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	done by machine; machinelike
Synonyms:	automated, automatic, cold, cursory, emotionless, fixed, habitual, impersonal, instinctive, involuntary, lifeless, matter-of-fact, monotonous, perfunctory, routine, spiritless, standardized, stereotyped, unchanging, unconscious, unfeeling, unthinking, useful, laborsaving, machine-driven, programmed
Antonyms:	by hand, conscious, feeling, manual

Main Entry:	menial
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	lowly, low-status
Synonyms:	abject, base, boring, common, degrading, dull, fawning, humble, humdrum, ignoble, ignominious, low, mean, obeisant, obsequious, routine, servile, slavish, sorry, subservient, unskilled, vile, baseborn, demeaning, grovelling, sycophantic
Antonyms:	elevated, skilled, superior, talented

Main Entry:	mentality
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	state of mind; intelligence
Synonyms:	attitude, cast, character, comprehension, disposition, frame of mind*, intellect, intelligence quotient, makeup, mental age, mind, outlook, personality, psychology, reasoning, routine, sense, understanding, wit, IQ, brainpower, brains, headset, mindset, rationality, turn of mind, way of thinking
Antonyms:	physicality

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Main Entry:	monotony
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	boredom; sameness
Synonyms:	continuance, continuity, dryness, dullness, ennui, evenness, humdrum*, likeness, oneness, routine, similarity, tediousness, tedium, uniformity, colorlessness, dreariness, equability, flatness, identicalness, invariability, levelness, monotone, monotonousness, repetitiousness, repetitiveness, same old thing, tiresomeness, unchangeableness, wearisomeness
Antonyms:	change, color, excitement, liveliness, versatility, variability