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accustomed act attitudes automatic automatic behavior behaviors boring businesslike chronic chore code common commonest conventional conventional custom custom customary cut-and-dried daily dreary duller duller duller dullness dull dull dull evasion everyday excuses excuse familiar formulaic general grind habit habitude habitual ho-hum house rule humdrum inning insipidity insipidness innocuousness jejuneness lifelessness lingering manner mechanical menial mentality method methods monotony monotonousness monotone more boring more familiar more normal more regular more regular mundane normal occurrence occurrences open and shut/open-and-shut open-and-shut order ordinary ordinary outlook periodic perfunctory plain platitudinal platitudinous pretext pretense process procedure processes prosaic protracted ready-made regular regular regularity repertory ritual rote rote rubric round rule run-of-the-mill scenes scene standing order stereotypical sterileness stock stocker stodginess straightforward stuporous system tame tamer techniques technique tedium treadmill trite turn undistinguished unexciting uneventful unexceptional unimaginative unremarkable usage used to usual usance use vapidness vapidity warmed-over weariful workout