Sentence:  From the table he had received the gout; from the alcove a tendency to convulsions; from the grandeeship a pride so vast and <WSD>puerile</WSD> that he seldom heard anything that was said to him and talked to the ceiling in a perpetual monologue; from the exile, oceans of boredom, a boredom so persuasive that it was like pain,&mdash;he woke up with it and spent the day with it, and it sat by his bed all night watching his sleep. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Childish; trifling; silly.