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Adulate Fawn Ad Juh Layt Ad Yuh Layt Verb Flatter Admire Slavishly

This flashcard defines "adulate" as to flatter or admire someone in an excessive or slavish manner.

To flatter or admire someone excessively or slavishly.

Front adulate \AD-juh-layt or AD-yuh-layt\
Back verb
To flatter or admire slavishly.

[Back-formation from adulation, from Latin adulari (to flatter, to fawn upon, like a dog wagging its tail). Earliest documented use: 1777; adulation is from around 1400.]

"Media will continue to adulate and fawn before celebrities' feet, like abject courtiers in an imperial palace." - Kevin Myers; The Words 'Celebrity' and 'Ireland' Belong in the Same Sentence; Irish Independent (Dublin, Ireland); Sep 30, 2010.

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