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1. solemn
 2. earnest
3. grave
4. serious-minded
5. somber
6. somberly
7. sombre
8. ardency
9. douce
10. fervency
 11. lissomness
12. lithesomeness
13. rigour
14. serena
15. stern
16. tepidity
17. tepidness
18. acuteness
19. addictively
20. avidness
 21. cumbrousness
22. delicate
23. dour
24. effortfulness
25. floridness
26. flushness
27. gravamen
28. gravity
29. heaviness
30. laciness
 31. languidness
32. limberness
33. mellifluousness
34. pendulousness
35. precipitousness
36. rigidity
37. serious

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