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Level F Unit 14 words

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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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