| Question | Answer |
| willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible | Amenable |
| to scold sharply | Berate |
| Large-scale slaughter or loss of life | Carnage |
| Too ready to believe, easily deceived | Credulous |
| A rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation | Criterion |
| To use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly | Deplete |
| to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely | Expatiate |
| coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant | Extraneous |
| the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc... | Inception |
| a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) | Infirmity |
| lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile | Jejune |
| stubborn, unyielding | Obdurate |
| A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent | Potpourri |
| unusually early development (esp in talents or mental capability) | Precocious |
| Delighting in cruelty, excessive cruelty | Sadistic |
| Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy | Setentious |
| to beg earnestly and humbly | Supplicate |
| an excessive or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess | Surfeit |
| , twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious | Tortuous |
| swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language | Turgid |
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Biology Lab Midterm
