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  • 41stol|id — «STOL ihd», adjective. hard to arouse; not easily excited; showing no emotion; seeming dull: »a stolid person, a stolid face, a stolid refusal. The Prime Minister is immensely popular among the stolid and dour northerners (New York Times).… …

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  • 42impassive — adjective Date: 1605 1. a. archaic unsusceptible to pain b. unsusceptible to physical feeling ; insensible c. unsusceptible to or destitute of emotion ; apathetic 2. giving no sign of feeling or emotion ; expressionless • …

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  • 43arts, East Asian — Introduction       music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature.       Some studies of East Asia… …

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  • 44Myiarchus stolidus —   Myiarchus stolidus …

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  • 45dull — [adj1] unintelligent addled, backward, besotted, boring, brainless, daffy, daft, dense, dim, dim witted, doltish, dumb, feeble minded, half baked, ignorant, imbecilic, indolent, insensate, low, moronic, not bright, numskulled, obtuse,… …

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  • 46stolidity — noun 1. apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions • Syn: ↑emotionlessness, ↑impassivity, ↑impassiveness, ↑phlegm, ↑indifference, ↑unemotionality • Derivationally related forms: ↑stolid, ↑ …

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  • 48performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …

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  • 49dull — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. unsharp, blunt; deadened, numb; stupid; tedious, uninteresting, boring; spiritless, vapid, vacuous; dead, lifeless; sluggish, listless, lethargic; lackluster, dim, cloudy, obscure, stale, jaded. v.… …

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  • 50phlegmatic — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stolid, dull, apathetic; calm, imperturbable, languid, unemotional, inert, cold. See insensibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. apathetic, impassive, tiresome, cold; see dull 4 , indifferent 1 . See …

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