Vocabulary list 6

List 6

• Obsequious: servilely compliant or deferential; The servants were obsequious.
  
  
• Beatitude: supreme blessedness; exalted happiness; To kiss the ladies hand was of the greatest of the man’s beatitudes.
  
  
• Bête noire: a person or thing especially disliked or dreaded; bane; bugbear.; Busy work is the Bête noire of my existence.

• Bode: to be an omen of; portend; The storm clouds bode inclement weather ahead.

• Dank: unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly; The room was dank with mold and rain residue.

• Ecumenical: general; universal; English is often a ecumenical exercise in universal subjectivity/relativity.

• Fervid: heated or vehement in spirit, enthusiasm, etc; The agnostic and clergymen had a fervid religious debate.

• Fetid: having an offensive odor; stinking; Her shoes pervaded with an odiferous, fetid smell.

• Gargantuan: large, monolithic, huge; The boxer was gargantuan a titan amongst men.

• Heyday: height, in monitarial prosperity, success etc.; In its heyday, Blockbuster was a blockbuster in the retail space.

• Incubus: demonic, impish in character or appearance/actions. A cause of distress or anxiety like a nightmare; The boy was nearly an incubus with his mischievous behavior.

• Infrastructure: the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.; The schools infrastructure was dilapidated, crumbling from age.

• Inveigle: to entice, lure, or ensnare by flattery or artful talk or inducements; The femme fatale is frequently depicted inveigling her male prey.

• Kudos: honor; glory; acclaim; He received kudos from everyone on his performance.

• Lagniappe: Something given as a bonus or extra gift; As a Christmas bonus, Scrooge gave a gracious lagniappe to his laborers.

• Prolix: Using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy; My writing is occasionally prolix in prose.

• Protégé: a person who receives support and protection from an influential patron who furthers the protege's career; Padowans are Jedi protégés.

• Prototype: A first or preliminary model of something, esp. a machine, from which other forms are developed or copied; The first prototype rockets were failures.

• Sycophant: A person who acts obsequiously toward someone in order to gain advantage; a servile flatterer; Sycophants are self-subscribing pukes to put it harshly, always kissing up to get into the good graces of an individual.

• Tautology: The saying of the same thing twice in different words; Tautology is synonymous with redundancy.

• Truckle: Submit or behave obsequiously; The servants were truckling pilgrims, unquestioning in their servitude.