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perfunctory
Definition: (adjective) unenthusiastic, routine, or mechanical.
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imperative

adjective
  1. Compelling immediate attention: burning, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, instant, pressing, urgent. See big
  2. Imposed on one by authority, command, or convention: compulsory, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, required, requisite. See obligation
noun
An act or course of action that is demanded of one, as by position, custom, law, or religion: burden1, charge, commitment, duty, must, need, obligation, responsibility. See obligation