Vocabulary Word Fic Prompts

Title: Whim of Fate
Fandom: Starsky & Hutch
Author: Cat Moon
Rating: PG (adult concepts)
Words: 100
Characters/Pairing: Hutch
Summary: Waiting to find out. Takes place during the episode, “Sweet Revenge,” but not necessary to have seen it to understand the drabble.


( Whim of Fate )

This week's words are



[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."





[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.