

| Drab | dull, plain, dowdy, dreary |
| Rapacious | greedy, predatory |
| Aberration | deviation, abnormality |
| Genuflect | to bend the knee or touch one kneed to the floor in reverence or worship or to express a servile attitude |
| Onerous | burdensome; laborious; involving a legal obligation that equals or exceeds the benefits |