modest(The growth is not due to birthrates, which have remained lower than death rates for years – although births finally outnumbered deaths by a modest 4,000 last year. TMT Alexander Demidov)
merely(I was merely trying to help. • …no boy wanted to be on record as considering a girl a major fox only to discover that she considered him merely cool. • The human race speaks a total of 7,000 tongues, so even learning 0.2% of them is merely making a start.gennier)