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CP III
Unit 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amenable | (adj) willing to follow advise or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive; liable to be held responsible |
| berate | (v) to scold sharply |
| carnage | (n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
| credulous | (adj) too ready to believe, easily deceived |
| criterion (pl. criteria) | (n) a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation |
| deplete | (v) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly |
| expatiate | (v) to expand on, write to talk at length or in detail; to move about freely |
| extraneous | (adj) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
| inception | (n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. |
| infirmity | (n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral etc.) |
| jejune | (adj) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile |
| obdurate | (adj) stubborn, unyielding |
| potpourri | (n) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petal mixed with spices for a scent |
| precocious | (adj) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) |
| sadistic | (adj) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
| sententious | (adj) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy |
| supplicate | (v) to beg earnestly and humbly |
| surfeit | (n) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) to feed or supply with anything to excess |
| tortuous | (adj) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex, devious |
| turgid | (adj) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language |