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111operose — I adjective arduous, backbreakmg, bothersome, burdensome, crushing, demanding, difficult, effortful, emasculating, embittering, enervating, exacting, exhausting, fagging, fatiguing, formidable, grinding, grueling, hard, hard to cope with,… …
112pertinacious — I adjective adamant, adhering to a purpose, assidous, bent, bullheaded, certain, continuing, decided, determined, diligent, dogged, earnest, enduring, exhibiting purpose, faithful, firm, hard to get rid of, headstrong, holding to a purpose,… …
113ponderous — I adjective awkward, big, boring, bulky, burdensome, clumsy, corpulent, cumbersome, cumbrous, dense, drearisome, dreary, droning, dull, elephantine, enormous, forced, gravis, hard to lift, heavy, hulking, labored, large, leaden, lifeless,… …
114commodified leisure — (kuh.MOD.i.fide LEE.zhur or LEZH.ur) n. Leisure activities that require the purchase of goods or services. adj. Of or relating to such an activity. Example Citation: The life of the contemporary bourgeoisie is a wearying frenzy of work, work,… …
115gallery rage — n. Extreme anger displayed by an art gallery patron when a visit is marred by huge crowds or rude gallery staff. Example Citations: Gauguin: Maker of Myth has drawn what is thought to be a record number of visitors to a Tate exhibition, but many… …
116boring — Synonyms and related words: acupunctuation, acupuncture, arid, bore, boresome, broach, dead, drab, dreary, drill hole, drudging, dry, dull, empiercement, exhausting, fatiguing, fixing, flat, goring, gray, humdrum, impalement, irksome, lancing,… …
117burdensome — Synonyms and related words: Herculean, annoying, arduous, backbreaking, besetting, bothersome, crushing, cumbersome, cumbrous, demanding, distressing, effortful, encumbering, exacting, exhausting, exigent, forced, grievous, grinding, grueling,… …
118deadly — Synonyms and related words: a la mort, abominably, accurate, agonizingly, ashen, awful, awfully, baldly, baleful, balefully, baneful, barbaric, barbarous, bitterly, blatantly, bloodthirsty, blue, boring, brashly, brutal, cadaverous, calamitous,… …
119draining — Synonyms and related words: aspiration, bleeding, bloodletting, breakdown, broaching, clamant, clamorous, cleaning out, clearance, clearing, collapse, coming apart, crack up, cracking, crumbling, crying, cupping, decadent, declining, defecation,… …
120dreary — Synonyms and related words: Quaker colored, acier, affecting, afflictive, apocalyptic, arid, ashen, ashy, bad, baleful, banausic, baneful, barren, bitter, black, blah, blank, bleak, bloodless, blue, bodeful, boding, boring, broken record,… …
