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Vocab 14
| 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 rulee, test; a standard for judgement of 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 | Infirmity |
| Lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile | Jejune |
| Stubborn, unyeilding | Obdurate |
| A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent | Potpourri |
| Showing unusually early development | Precocious |
| Delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel | Sadistic |
| Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use or maxims or adages; saying much in few words | Sententious |
| To beg earnestly and humbly | Supplicate |
| An excess or overindulgance, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust | Surfeit |
| Winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious | Tortuous |
| Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language | Turgid |