Menial

  • 121job — noun 1 employment ADJECTIVE ▪ decent, good, great, worthwhile ▪ interesting ▪ high powered, top ▪ …

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  • 122job — n. task 1) to do a job 2) to take on a job 3) a backbreaking; difficult, hard job 4) odd jobs (he does odd jobs) 5) a job to + inf. (it was quite a job to find him = it was quite a job finding him = we had quite a job finding him) employment 6)… …

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  • 123task — n. 1) to carry out, do, fulfill, perform; cope with; take on, undertake a task 2) to assign smb. a task 3) a delicate, ticklish; difficult; fruitless, hopeless; Herculean, monumental; irksome; menial; onerous; pleasant; unpleasant; unwelcome;… …

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  • 124drudge — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. toil, slave, grub, plod, hack, grind, plug. See exertion. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. hard worker, toiler, drone, slave, menial, lackey, grub, hack, scullion, grind, crammer, plodder, burner of… …

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  • 125underling — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. subordinate, assistant, inferior, deputy, apprentice; servant, menial, flunky, retainer. See inferiority. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. subordinate, hireling, servant, menial, minion, flunky*; see also… …

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  • 126servile — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. menial, beggarly, cringing; see humble 1 , 2 , obsequious . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [SUR vile] submissive or subservient, like a servant or slave. He smiled and nodded in the proper servile… …

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  • 127drudge — noun a person made to do hard, menial, or dull work. verb archaic do hard, menial, or dull work. Derivatives drudgery noun Origin ME: of unknown origin; perh. related to drag …

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  • 128skivvy — noun (plural skivvies) 1》 Brit. informal a low ranking female domestic servant.     ↘a person doing menial work. 2》 US & Austral. a lightweight high necked long sleeved garment.     ↘a T shirt. 3》 (skivvies) N. Amer. underwear of vest and… …

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