| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Slang. A particular kind of activity: Informal : bit1. See ACTION. 2. A habitual, laborious, often tiresome course of action: rut1, treadmill. Informal : grind. Slang : groove. See USUAL. 3. A course of action to be followed regularly: round (often used in plural), track. See USUAL. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Familiar through repetition: accustomed, chronic, habitual. See USUAL. 2. Occurring quite often: common, everyday, familiar, frequent, regular, widespread. See USUAL. 3. Being of no special quality or type: average, common, commonplace, cut-and-dried, formulaic, garden, garden-variety, indifferent, mediocre, ordinary, plain, run-of-the-mill, standard, stock, undistinguished, unexceptional, unremarkable. See GOOD, USUAL.
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