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What's a word that means lacking interest or
vigor, boring, vapid, or dull?
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Insipid.
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Airline food is often bland and insipid.
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How might you describe a person who is courteous and refined in manner?
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Urbane.
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Keith is well traveled, very cultured, and urbane.
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What's an adjective used to describe a substitute product most often of inferior quality?
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Ersatz.
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From a distance that ersatz leather jacket looked fine,
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but when you got up close you could see the poor quality.
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