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Unit Voc 14
Unit 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| increased | turgid |
| swollen, bloated, filled excess, excessive language | turgid |
| involved | tortuous |
| winding twisted crooked highly involved complex | tortuous |
| dearth | surfeit |
| excess over indulgence eating and drinking | surfeit |
| entreat | supplicate |
| to beg earnestly and humble | supplicate |
| self righteous moralizing say much few words | sententious |
| delighting in cruelty excessively cruel | sadistic |
| vicious | sadistic |
| showing unusually early development | precocious |
| collection diverse miscellaneous - general mixture petals mixed with spices and scents | potpourri |
| stubborn unyeilding | obdurate |
| lacking nutritive value - lacking interest - immature | jejune |
| mature | jejune |
| weakness - ailment | infirmity |
| strengths | infirmity |
| the beginning - start - earliest stage | inception |
| coming from outside - foreign - irrelevant | extraneous |
| to expand - write talk @ length - move freely | expatiate |
| enlarge | expatiate |
| use up - consumption diminish | deplete |
| exhaust | deplete |
| rule test standard for judgement | criterion (criteria) |
| gauge | criterion (criteria) |
| too ready to believe - easily deceived | credulous |
| skepitical | credulous |
| large scale - slaughter - loss of life | carnage |
| to scold sharply | berate |
| scolded | berate |
| willing to follow advise - submissive - responsive | amenable |
| responsive | amenable |