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  • 33crawl — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. creep, lag, drag; cringe, fawn, cower, grovel. See servility, slowness, lowness. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To move like an insect] Syn. creep, worm along, wriggle, squirm, slither, move on hands and… …

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  • 34flattery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Undue adulation Nouns 1. flattery, adulation, blandishment, cajolery; fawning, wheedling, coquetry, sycophancy, flunkeyism, servility, toadying, incense, honeyed words, flummery, blarney; lip service,… …

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  • 35submission — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Yielding Nouns 1. submission, submissiveness, obedience, resignation, patience, humility, self abasement, compliance, pliancy, docility, passivity, acquiescence, sufferance, conformity, subjection;… …

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  • 36thrall — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. slavery, bondage, servility. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. bondman, serf, vassal; see slave 1 . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A state of subjugation to an owner or master: bondage, enslavement, helotry,… …

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  • 37servile — [[t]sɜ͟ː(r)vaɪl, AM v(ə)l[/t]] ADJ GRADED (disapproval) If you say that someone is servile, you disapprove of them because they are too eager to obey someone or do things for them. [FORMAL] He was subservient and servile... They said she had a… …

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  • 38ἀνδραποδωδίας — ἀνδραποδωδίᾱς , ἀνδραποδωδία servility fem acc pl ἀνδραποδωδίᾱς , ἀνδραποδωδία servility fem gen sg (attic doric aeolic) …

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  • 39governor —    Probably the most frequent use of this term is in various parts of Britain, where working class men use it to address another man, usually one who is unknown to them. In his book The Cockney, Julian Franklyn writes:    ‘Guv’ner’, generally so… …

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  • 40obsequiousness — noun abject or cringing submissiveness • Syn: ↑servility, ↑subservience • Derivationally related forms: ↑subservient (for: ↑subservience), ↑servile (for: ↑ …

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