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usual adj. same, customary, habitual, accustomed, familiar,<br />

well-known, common, everyday, established, traditional, set,<br />

time-honoured, old, conventional, workaday, stock, wonted,<br />

regular, ordinary, normal, expected, routine, typical,<br />

run-of-the-mill, stereotypic(al), hackneyed, trite, prosaic,<br />

worn out, shop-worn, predictable, unexceptional, unoriginal,<br />

unremarkable, unimaginative: The usual answer I get is 'Why?' I<br />

missed my usual train this morning. They still sing the usual<br />

drinking songs.<br />

usually adv. customarily, as a rule, generally (speaking), most of the<br />

time, for the most part, most often, mostly, almost always,<br />

inveterately, on the whole, normally, commonly, regularly,<br />

predominantly, chiefly, all things considered, in the main,<br />

mainly, by and large, as usual, Colloq as per usual: I usually<br />

walk home from the office. Johnson usually interviews applicants<br />

in the morning.<br />

21.8 Utopia...<br />

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Utopia n. paradise, heaven, seventh heaven, (Garden of) Eden, bliss,<br />

cloud-cuckoo-land, Nephelococcygia, never-never land,<br />

Shangri-La, Cockaigne or Cockayne, heaven on earth, perfection:<br />

He dreams about a Utopia where everyone is rich and there are no<br />

taxes.<br />

utterly adv. completely, perfectly, absolutely, thoroughly, fully,<br />

entirely, wholly, unreservedly, totally, unqualifiedly,<br />

out-and-out, altogether, overwhelmingly, unequivocally,<br />

categorically, definitely, properly; extremely, Brit dialect<br />

proper; (with) no holds barred, body and soul, head over heels:<br />

The proposal was utterly defeated in the Commons. That was an<br />

utterly foolish act. She gave herself to him utterly.<br />

22.0 V<br />

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22.1 vacancy...<br />

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