Vocabulary #5

1.)obsequious: obedient, dutiful; characterized by showing servile complaisance or deference. 
The obsequious teammate was always repeating the coach's instructions right after the coach gave them. 

2.)beatitude: a state of perfect happiness or blessedness; a blessing.
Finding out I had all A's on my report card gave me a feeling of beatitude.

3.)bete noire: someone or something than one especially dislikes, dreads, or avoids.
The boy was such a bete noire that the girl changed her routes in the hallways to avoid him.

4.)bode: to be an omen of; to indicate by signs.
The rainstorm seemed not to bode well for the team playing a game.

5.)dank: unpleasantly damp or wet.
The cave was dank due to the recent rainstorm.

6.)ecumenical: worldwide or universal in influence or application.
Celebrities have an ecumenical affect on the general public.

7.)fervid: burning with enthusiasm or zeal; extremely heated.
The plaintiff was fervid because of the allegations made that day.

8.)fetid: having an unpleasant or offensive odor.
My kneepads become quite fetid if I don't wash them often.

9.)gargantuan: of immense size, volume, or capacity; enormous, prodigious.
Despite her gargantuan height the middle blocker had no skills to back it up whatsoever.

10.)heyday: the period of greatest power, vigor, success, or influence; the prime years
High school is most people's heyday.

11.)incubus: a demon or evil spirit supposed to haunt human beings in their bedrooms at night; anything that oppresses or weighs upon one, like a nightmare.
My mother woke up from an incubus where she was falling of the side of a mountain.

12.)infrastructure: a basic foundation or framework; a system of public works; the resources and facilities required for an activity; permanent military installations.
In order to have a stable building the infrastructure has to be rock solid.

13.)inveigle: to entice, lure, or snare by flattery or artful inducements; to obtain or acquire by artifice.
Teenage boys are known to inveigle girls into dating them.

14.)kudos: the acclaim, prestige, or renown that comes as a result of some action or achievement.
After my great hit my teammates and coach gave me kudos.

15.)lagniappe: an extra or unexpected gift or gratuity.
A stranger paying for a family's meal can be seen as a lagniappe.

16.)prolix: long-winded and wordy; tending to speak or write in such a way.
Her response to the simple question was prolix which raised a red flag to her parents who asked it.

17.)protege: someone whose welfare, training, or career is under the patronage of an influential person; someone under the jurisdiction of a foreign country or government.
Will Smith's son could be seen as his protege because he appears in almost every movie Will's in.

18.)prototype: an original pattern or model; a primitive or ancestral form.
The prototype for the first computer looks nothing like the computers we have today.

19.)sycophant: someone who attempts to win favors or advance him or herself  by flattery or servile behavior; a slanderer, defamer.
The captain was a real sycophant, only working on improving herself rather than improving the team.

20.)tautology: needless repetition of an idea by using different but equivalent words; a redundancy.
To make their point extremely clear the coaches used tautology to drive the idea into the team's head.

21.)truckle: to yield or submit tamely or submissively.
The quiet girl always truckled when her loud, outgoing partner suggested that they did something.