subservient: implies the compliant or cringing manner of one conscious of a subordinate position: domestic help was expected to be properly ~. (domestic help=domestic servant家庭佣人)


servile: suggests lowly status and mean or fawning submissiveness: a political boss and his entourage of ~ hangers-on.


slavish: suggests abject or debased servility: the ~ condition of migrant farmer workers.


menial: stresses humbleness and degradation associated with one who works at an economically or socially inferior occupation: wanted to escape from a life of ~ jobs.


obsequious: implies fawning or sycophantic compliance and exaggerated deference of manner: waiters who are ~ in the presence of celebrities.      (obsequious和sycophantic互释都表示谄媚，即虚伪的称赞)


subservient: 意识到自身下属地位表现的顺从唯诺(cringe:退缩害怕的样子)，servile奴态的: 地位低微，逢迎顺从(fawn逢迎，submissive顺从)，slavish卑贱的: 可怜没有尊严(abject,debased)的逢迎顺从(servility)，menial: 社经地位弱势的人的恭顺降格(humble恭顺谦卑，degradation降格)，obsequious: 谄媚的顺从，夸张的恭顺。


记忆方法: 1）首字母Small MOSS象苔藓一样渺小<==顺从的人


         2）顺从的意思是极端的服从或低声下气的遵守mean showing or characterized by extreme compliance or abject obeidIence.