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vocab 14
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 judgment or conclusion; the 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 thought |
| 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 |