Kinch vocab 9
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- dank
- (adj.) unpleasantly damp; clammy, moist, soggy
- sycophant
- (n.) someone who attempts to advance themself through flattery; a slanderer, defamer, yes-man, toady, flunky, bootlicker
- heyday
- (n.) the period of greatest power, the prime years; golden age
- gargantuan
- (adj.) of immense size; huge, colossal, mammoth
- bete noire
- (n.) someone that one especially dislikes; pet peeve, bugbear, nemesis, Clayton
- truckle
- (v.) to yield tamely; kowtow, stoop, grovel
- protege
- (n.) someone whose welfare is under partonage of an influential person; ward, charge, disciple, trainee
- inveigie
- (v.) to entice or lure by flattery; induce, beguile, cajole, wheedle
- incubus
- (n.) a demon supposed to haunt humans in their bedrooms at night; hobgoblin, millstone, burden
- beatitude
- (n.) a state of perfect happiness; a blessing, bliss, rapture
- fervid
- (adj.) burning with enthusiasm, extremely heated; ardent, zealous, fervent, earnest
- prolix
- (adj.) long-winded, tending to speak or write in such a way; verbose, garruluos
- lagniappe
- (n.) an extra gift; bonus
- bode
- (v.) to be an omen of, to indicate by signs; presage, augur, foreshadow
- infrastructure
- (n.) a basic foundation, a system of public works; base, basis, underpinning
- tautology
- (n.) needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; redundancy, pleonasm
- ecumenical
- (adj.) worldwide in influence; general, comprehensive
- prototype
- (n.) an original pattern, a primitive form; archetype
- fetid
- (adj.) having an unpleasant odor; smelly, putrid, noisome, malodorous
- kudos
- (n.) the acclaim that comes as a result of some action; glory, praise, accolades