Question

read the passage. then, select the synonym of the word in bold. annie garcia is a researcher at a nearby university. although she loves to perform experiments, her job also involves the tedious task of recording thousands of study results. she spends several hours every day entering data into the computer, which she finds extremely boring.

Explanation:

The context of the passage clarifies that the bolded word "tedious" describes a repetitive, uninteresting task (data entry that Annie finds boring). A direct synonym for this meaning is "boring", which is explicitly used later in the passage to describe the same task.

Answer:

boring