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Smile Dutifully When Beginning Dreary Work

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noun

• an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious

• the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground

• hard monotonous routine work

• the act of grinding to a powder or dust

verb

• press or grind with a crushing noise

• make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together

• work hard

• dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced

• reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading

• created by grinding

• shape or form by grinding

30%5Dutifully reverent
adjective

• having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity

30%10 Bone idle Tory, having no alternative, reformed dutifully
adverb

• in an obedient manner

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Telegraph Toughie23 Jul 2025 Across 20
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