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And here's your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by humdrum,

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Which of these words is closest in meaning to tedious?

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And here are the potential answers.

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[ mumbles ] All right.

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You've probably heard of tedious tasks or details,

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like when you're forced to reorganize a sock drawer

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or alphabetize your dad's record collection.

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All right, let's take a look at B - small and D - large.

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Well, tedious describes how you feel about

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an action, not its size or magnitude.

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If you think about it, we've all had

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jobs big and small that we really didn't wanna do.

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All right, so, then there's C - important.

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Same thing goes for the value of the act itself.

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Filling out college applications is pretty repetitive and tedious,

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but you have to do it if you want to get in.

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So that leaves us with A - boring,

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which means dull or tiresome,

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which is a synonym for tedious.

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So the correct answer is A - boring,

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like the new spin-off, CSI: DMV.

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