tedium ②to feel bored

theory ②(unreasonable) argument

disgrace

narrow ②formal ③constrained ④tight (e.g. finances)

persistence

menial

killing time

sophism

humiliating

narrow-minded

argumentative

dorsiflexion

day of disgrace (in Okinawa; April 28, after the day in 1952 in which the US occupation of mainland Japan, but not Okinawa, ended)

bend forward

tenacity

gloomy

sense of humiliation

quibbler

servile submission

sophistry

to yield ②to bend (knee, etc.) ③to subdue ④to feel down

yielding

leading

to yield ②to bend (knee, etc.) ③to subdue ④to feel down

robust

bending ②warping (of feelings, logic, etc.) ③refraction ④inflection

worry ②ennui

bending and stretching

refractive index

crookedness

geotropism

phototropism

angle of refraction

inflected language

refracting telescope

flexor muscle

axis of refraction

carefree

elbow

crouched burial

to bow (of one's back, e.g. due to age)