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Stack #4654754
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amenable | willing to follow advice or authority; liable to be held responsible |
| berate | to scold sharply |
| carnage | large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
| credulous | too ready to believe, easily deceived |
| criterion | a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation |
| deplete | to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly |
| expatiate | to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail, to move about freely |
| extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
| inception | the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc |
| infirmity | a weakness or ailment |
| jejune | lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile |
| obdurate | stubborn, unyielding |
| potpourri | a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent |
| precocious | showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) |
| sadistic | delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
| sententious | self-righteous, characterized by moralizing, given to use of maxims or adage; saying much in few words, pithy |
| supplicate | to beg earnestly and humbly |
| surfeit | an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess |
| tortuous | winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious |
| turgid | swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive language |
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