1 Russia

1 base

2 mean

3 despicable

1 lowly

2 humble

1 Venice

2 Venezia

1 Texas

1 neither servile nor overbearing (idiom)

2 neither obsequious nor supercilious

1 my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familiar opinion

2 what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary

1 my opinion, nothing very involved (idiom, humble expression); my humble point is a familiar opinion

2 what I say is really nothing out of the ordinary

1 to be too petty or insignificant to mention

2 to not be worth mentioning (idiom)

1 to bow and bend the knee (idiom); fawning

2 bending and scraping to curry favor