obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
- The obsequious salesman begged me to buy the product he was selling.
beatitude: supreme blessedness
-The richest man in the world cannot buy beatitude.
bete noire: a person or thing strongly detested or avoided
- When they learned that he was a pedophile, he became a bête noire.
bode: be an omen of a particular outcome
- The rain didn't bode well for the wedding
dank: disagreeably damp or humid
- The meeting was held in his dank little apartment.
ecumenical: of worldwide scope or applicability; universal
- He presented an ecumenical matter.
fervid: intensely enthusiastic or passionate
- Her fervid speech opposed abortion.
fetid: smelling extremely unpleasant
- The fetid room scared everyone away.
gargantuan: enormous
- The popularity of their music has soared to gargantuan levels.
heyday: the stage of greatest vigor, strength, success
- He was in the heyday of his life.
incubus: an oppressive or nightmarish burden
- The incubus in her life was overwhelming her.
infrastructure: The basic services, facilities etc. needed for a functioning community
- Roads are considered infrastructures in the city.
inveigle: persuade to do something by means of deception
- She was able to inveigle the drunk man.
kudos: praise given for achievement
- She gave the entire class kudos for their hard work.
lagniappe: something given or obtained gratuitously by a way of good measure
- As lagniappe, the family their friends a present.
prolix: using or containing too many words
- The teachers told her to shorten her prolix essay.
protégé: a person who is guided by an more experienced or influential person
- The student went to his longtime protégé.
prototype: an original model on which something is patterned
- They tested the prototype in their class.
sycophant: a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important to gain advantage
- She didn't expect her friend to turn into a sycophant when the new girl came.
tautology: the saying of the same thing twice in different words.
- In her essay, she said the tautology, "Either it is going to rain or it isn't."
truckle: to be servile or submissive
- She had a truckle personality.
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