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vacant
3
abandoned
3
forlorn
3
solitary(bleak, isolated, uncultivated, barren)
3
unpeopled
3
untilled(uncultivated, barren)
2
anhydrous(hard, dry, bare, stale)
2
athirst(hard, dry, bare, stale)
2
barbarian(wild, fierce, savage, ferocious)
2
bone-dry(hard, dry, bare, stale)
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drained(hard, dry, bare, stale)
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dreary
2
dried-up(hard, dry, bare, stale)
2
droughty(hard, dry, bare, stale)
2
dry as dust(expression, idiom, dry, barren)
2
dusty(hard, dry, bare, stale)
2
exhausted(hard, dry, blank, bare)
2
juiceless(hard, dry, bare, stale)
2
miserable
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sapless(hard, dry, bare, stale)
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