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servile

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Adjective

  1. Excessively eager to please; obsequious.
  2. Slavish or submissive.
  3. Slavish or submissive: Of or pertaining to a slave.
  4. Not belonging to the original root.
  5. Not sounded, but serving to lengthen the preceding vowel, like the e in tune.

Noun

  1. An element which forms no part of the original root.
  2. A slave; a menial.

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