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vocab 14

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Amenable willing or ready to submit, agree or follow
Berate to rebuke or scold severely and at length
Carnage massive slaughter, as in battle
Credulous inclined to believe or trust too quickly
Criterion the set standard by which one determines judgement or conclusion; a rule for evaluation
Deplete to reduce or lessen seriously by use, exhaustion or waste
Expatiate to speak or write at length in detail; to wander freely
Extraneous coming from the outside and not belonging; irrelevant
inception the beginning or start of something
Infirmity a physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw
Jejune lacking in interest or significance; deficient in nutritious value
Obdurate unyielding and stubborn
Ostensible outwardly apparent but not necessarily so
Potpourri a miscellaneous mixture of unrelated things
Precocious an early or premature development in talents or thoughts
Providential appearing to happen by divine guidance; good fortune
Sadistic the deriving of pleasure or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty
Sententious given to excessive moralizing, self-righteous; concise; given to using sayings or maxims
Supplicate to beg
Surfeit an excessive overindulgence, as in eating or drinking
Tortuous full of repeated twists, turns and bends; complex
Turgid excessively ornate or complex in style or language
Created by: 17mahomol
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