Sentence:  And one day the new port <WSD>palled</WSD>, like a book one has read too often, or a picture one has looked at over-long. And it was sheet home the royals and off to a new port, where there were new strange people, and streets laid another way, and other things in the merchants' booths, and a new language to pick up a phrase or two of. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To become dull, insipid, tasteless, or vapid; to lose life, spirit, strength, or taste.