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perfunctory
Definition: (adjective) unenthusiastic, routine, or mechanical.
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bane  audio  (bn) KEY 

NOUN:
  1. Fatal injury or ruin: "Hath some fond lover tic'd thee to thy bane?" (George Herbert).
    1. A cause of harm, ruin, or death: "Obedience,/Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth,/Makes slaves of men" (Percy Bysshe Shelley).
    2. A source of persistent annoyance or exasperation: "The spellings of foreign names are often the bane of busy copy editors" (Norm Goldstein).
  3. A deadly poison.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, destroyer, from Old English bana; see gwhen- in Indo-European roots


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