Fawn GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /fɔːn/ (adj, noun & verb) Verb: to grovel, pander, flatter, bootlick, butter up, ingratiate oneself with, be obsequious to, toady, curry favor with, kowtow, be sycophantic to Noun: a young deer Adjective: a pale yellowish brown color “There’s a personal cost to ingratiating yourself with your boss, or fawning over him”…
Toady GRE Vocabulary Flashcard /ˈtəʊ.di/ (noun & verb) Noun: a sycophantic person who flatters people in authority or power to get some advantage from them, servile person, sycophant, yes-man, groveler, flatterer, crawler, fawner, apple-polisher Verb: to ingratiate oneself with, grovel to, flatter, butter someone up, curry favor with, be obsequious, kowtow The company manager is…
Curry 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 1 Curry 1100 Words You Need Week 41 Day 1 /ˈkʌr.i/ US /ˈkɝː-/ (noun & verb) to seek favor by flattery, praise someone excessively, butter up, ingratiate, ingratiate yourself, cozy up, get in good with, play up to, grovel, to clean and brush a horse with a…
Apple Polishing 1100 Words Apple Polishing 1100 Words seeking someone’s favor by flattery or gifts, ass-kissing, backscratching, brown-nosing, cringing, fawning, groveling, handshaking, ingratiation, insinuation, obeisance, obsequiousness, parasitism, prostration, sponging, sycophancy, timeserving, toadying, toadyism, truckling “If apple polishing the shrewd professor has got you where you are today, how much more simple to apple polish a…
Ingratiate GRE Vocabulary Flashcard Ingratiate GRE Vocabulary Flashcard / ɪnɡreɪʃieɪt/ (verb) to try very hard to get someone’s approval – used to show disapproval, flatter, curry favor, suck up, insinuate yourself, toady, crawl, grovel, get in with, cozy up: His policy is to ingratiate himself with anyone who might be useful to him. antonym: alienate…