vocab #5

1. Obsequious (adjective): obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.
- When you go to a car dealership you expect to deal with very obsequious people, who are persistent that you buy a car.
2. Beatitude (noun): A state of utmost bliss, or happiness.
- One can have all the items they could ever desire in the world, but they may not ever have beatitude.
3. Bete Noire (noun): A person or thing strongly detested or avoided.
- After the man killed his three children he was a Bete Noire and no longer had any friends or family on his side.
4. Bode (verb): to announce beforehand; to indicate by signs.
- Every morning the news reporters bode the forecast for events and weather, so the people of the community know what to expect.
5. Dank (adjective): unpleasantly wet or moist.
- Sarah was dared to go into the basement, but it look to creepy and dank so she refused.
6. Ecumenical( adjective): worldwide or general in extent influence or application.
- The argument presented was ecumenical, people all around the world were dealing with the same thing.
7. Fervid (adjective): very hot, marked by often extreme intensity.
- The man became very fervid when no one agreed with his proposal. He worked very hard on it and it made him very upset.
8. Fetid ( adjective): having a very heavy or offensive smell.
-When you drive by a dairy farm you get a very fetid smell, that makes everyone cover their noses.
9. Gargantuan (adjective): tremendous in size, volume, or degree.
- The gargantuan sized book scared everyone off, no one chose to read it for the literature analysis #2.
10. Heyday (noun): High spirits, the period of ones greatest popularity.
- The star football player can be having the best time of his life in high school, which can be considered his heyday.
11. Incubus (noun): an oppressive or nightmarish burden.
- The SAT can be an incubus, which makes studying for it near impossible at times.
12. inveigle ( verb) To win over by flattering, tempting, or persuading.
- During the interview the lady inveigle to her best ability, which evidently got her the job.
13. Kudos ( noun): praise given for achievement.
-Kudos to everyone who received a Golden Warrior award during their high school career!
14. Lagniappe (noun): something given as a bonus, or extra gift.
- Many companies give lagniappes if you buy so much of a specific product, that's their way of rewarding you.
15. Prolix (adjective): unduly prolonged, or drawn out to long.
- Sometimes at FFA meetings the length of the overall meeting can seem a bit prolix, maybe they should try and shorten it a little.
16. Protege (noun): one who is protected or trained, or whose career is furthered by a person of experience.
- A student teacher can be considered a protege, they study the ways that a professional teacher teaches and then applies it later on.
17. Prototype (noun): an original model on which something is patterned.
- When building new technology, scientist often use prototypes to help them start off with an idea.
18. Sycophant (noun): a person who acts obsequiously towards someone in order to gain an advantage.
- Teacher pets can also be called sycophants, because they both use flattering to get ahead.
19. Tautology ( noun): saying the same thing twice in different words , considered to be a fault in style.
- Some authors use tautology to emphasis certain aspects of their work.
20. Truckle: to yield out to weakness, or be submissive.
- The man had a truckle personality, always giving in to peoples ways.