VOC. #5

1)Obsequious: obedient, dutiful

Up until high school it had been quite easy to be obsequious to all the house rules.

2)Beatitude: exalted happiness

Annie admitted that she had never experienced of beatitude.

3)bete noire: disliked person or thing

Just like I find math to be very difficult so do many others; it is bête noire in our society.

4)bode: predict, announce before hand

As a young child Paul was taught to bode what was going to happen in the novels before he read them.

5)dank: moist, humid, damp

The car was so dank that my hands became sticky with sweat after a few minutes.

6)ecumenical: general, universal

The topic of education is a ecumenical topic.

7)fervid: enthusiasm, burning in spirit

After the church retreat Andrew felt a fervid feeling in his heart.

8)fetid: bad odor, stinky

After finishing his triathlon Nick could not fetid more.

9)gargantuan: gigantic, enormous

I strongly dislike people who make a gargantuan problem out of a small situation.

10)heyday: stage or period of success, strength, high spirits

By the time the homecoming game rally was finished the football players were in a heyday.

11)Incubus: evil spirit, nightmare

When people I do not know come out in my dreams they turn out to be incubus instead of dreams.

12)infrastructure: the underlying framework of a system

The infrastructure of the building needs to be figured out before we actually start the building.

13)inveigle: to entice by flattering talk

John tried to inveigle Betty to be his girlfriend, but she rejected him.

14)kudos: honor, glory

“Kudos to you for starting you Odyssey project on the first day”, I told her.

15)lagniappe: bonus, tip

If I were to work as a waitress I would be extra nice just so I can get a lagniappe.

16)prolix: long, wordy and unnecessary

Mr. Rec prohibited the students to make their thesis prolix, but encouraged them to have straightforward and clear thesis.

17)protégé: under patronage, protection

I am under the protégé of the United States of America.

18)prototype:  model or something that is used to illustrate

The prototype in our science class is tall and bony.

19)sycophant: self-seeking flatterer

He forgot about his family and decided to become a sycophant person.

20)tautology: needless repetition of something

Even though the Mr. Dine knew the class understood the concept and did not need tautology he kept talking about it.

21)truckle: passive, willingness, submissive

I was taught to not truckle to anything without giving a fight