compliant fawning obsequious servile slavish submissive

subordinate subservient sycophants toady

1) He always has …………. attitude around those with money or power: he is always
eager to obey and serve them like a slave.
2) The ……………… citizens would do anything their powerful leader told them to
just to please him.
3) The student was ordered to go home to change his clothes since they were not
………… with the school’s dress code.
4) A corrupt regime aided by a …………. press that listens to its demands without
questioning is what people from the communist world are ruled by.
He has been criticised for his …………….. devotion to the rules –he obeys them
completely without question. (one word)
5) When her career was riding high, the self-deluded actress often mistook
……………, those who praised her to exploit her, for true friends, those who really
cared for her well-being.
6) The idea that women are naturally ……………….. to men should always be
questioned: there is nothing nature about women serving a less important role than
men in this world.
7) The student’s ………….. behaviour was so blatant that the new professor
recognised it almost instantaneously – such insincere praise would not earn him any
favour from the professor.
8) Don refused to be ………………….. to his father, stating that he did not plan to
live his whole life being his subordinate.
9) No one liked the office ……………., who spent most of her time complimenting
the boss on what a great job he was doing.
10) In those Victorian days, women were expected to be quiet and ……………..: they
were meant to listen, not to be heard; to obey and accept, not to disagree and rebel.