Vocab #5

1. obsequious: obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree

2. beatitude: supreme blessedness

3. bete noire: a person or thing that one particularly dislikes or dreads

4. bode: to announce beforehand, or predict

5. dank: disagreeably damp, musty, and typically cold

6. ecumenical: representing a number of different Christian churches; nondenominational

7. fervid: intensely enthusiastic or passionate, to an excessive degree

8. fetid: smelling extremely unpleasant

9. gargantuan: enormous

10. heyday: the period of a person's or thing's greatest success, popularity, or power

11. inveigle: persuade to do something by means of flattery or deception

12. kudos: praise and honor received for an achievement

13. lagniappe: something given as a bonus or extra gift

14. prolix: using or containing too many words, tediously lengthy

15. protege: a person who is guided by an older and more experienced person

16. prototype: a first model of something

17. sycophant: a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain an advantage

18. tautology: the saying of the same thing twice in different words

19. truckle: to submit or behave obediently

20. incubus: something that causes somebody much worry or anxiety

21. infrastructure: basic organization, structure, set up