vocab 3
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- Fulsome
- offensive because of insincerity; repulsive; disgusting
- Ingratiate
- work (oneself) into favor
- Lackey
- follower who carries out another's wishes like a servant; toady
- Cajolery
- Persuasion by flattery; wheedling; coaxing
- Curry favor
- Seek to gain favor by flattery
- Cajole
- persuade by pleasant words; wheedle; coax
- Blandishment
- Word or deed of mild flattery; allurement; enticement
- Svelte
- Slender; lithe
- Adulation
- excessive praise; flattery
- Emaciated
- Make unnaturally thin; abnormally lean because of starvation or illness
- Attenuate
- Make thin; weaken
- Burly
- strongly and heavily built; husky
- Haggard
- Careworn; gaunt
- Lank
- Lean; ungracefully tall; lanky
- obsequious
- showing excessive willingness to serve; subservient; fawning
- pudgy
- Short and plump; chubby
- Buxom
- Plump and attractive
- Cherubic
- Chubby and innocent-looking; like a cherub (angel in the form of a child)
- Obesity
- Excessive body weight; corpulence
- Obese
- Extremely overweight; corpulent; portly
- Sychophant
- Parasitic flatterer; truckler
- Truckle
- Submit in a subservient manner to a superior; fawn; make a doormat of oneself