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 surrounded by a crowd of sycophants and toadies, yet he’s too dumb to figure it out.
Adjective: toadyish
Noun: toadyism
