Question

A compliment is a pleasant and courteous expression of praise; flattery is stronger than a compliment and often

considered insincere. Adulation is flattery and worship carried to an excessive, ridiculous degree. There are often public figures (entertainers, musicians, government officials, etc.) who receive widespread adulation, but those not in the public eye can also be adulated, as a teacher by students, a wife by husband (and vice versa), a doctor by patients, and so on.
The adjective adulatory ends in -ory, a suffix we are meeting for the first time in these pages. (Other adjective suffixes: -al, -ic, -ical, -ous.)

Accepted Answer

The derivation is from a Latin verb meaning to fawn upon. Word Power Made Easy SESSION 22

知识	A compliment is a pleasant and courteous expression of praise; flattery is stronger than a compliment and often considered insincere. Adulation is flattery and worship carried to an excessive, ridiculous degree. There are often public figures (entertainers, musicians, government officials, etc.) who receive widespread adulation, but those not in the public eye can also be adulated, as a teacher by students, a wife by husband (and vice versa), a doctor by patients, and so on. The adjective adulatory ends in -ory, a suffix we are meeting for the first time in these pages. (Other adjective suffixes: -al, -ic, -ical, -ous.)
拓展	The derivation is from a Latin verb meaning to fawn upon.
《》	how to flatter
出处	Word Power Made Easy SESSION 22

Flattery Public Adjective Compliment Pleasant Courteous Expression Praise