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vocab_drabbles2022-09-23 02:00 am
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Entry tags:
#027 Adulation - #028 Fugacious
This week's words are
Adulation
[ˌajəˈlāSH(ə)n]
NOUN
Extreme or excessive admiration or flattery.
From etymonline.com:
"Servile or insincere praise," late 14c., from Old French adulacion, from Latin adulationem (nominative adulatio) "a fawning; flattery, cringing courtesy," noun of action from past-participle stem of adulari "to flatter, fawn upon."
Fugacious
[fyo͞oˈɡāSHəs]
ADJECTIVE
Tending to disappear; fleeting, brief, transient.
From etymonline.com:
"Fleeing, likely to flee," 1630s, with -ous + Latin fugaci-, stem of fugax "apt to flee, timid, shy," figuratively "transitory, fleeting," from fugere "to flee" (see fugitive). Related: Fugaciously; fugaciousness; fugacity.