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bkhs 11/F unit 14
sadlier-oxford vocab workshop level f unit 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| amenable | willing to follow advice or authority; submissive |
| berate | to scold sharply |
| carnage | large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
| credulous | too ready to believe, easily deceived |
| criterion | a rule, test; standard for evaluation |
| deplete | to use up as a result of spending or consumption |
| expatiate | to expand on, write or talk at leangth or in detail |
| extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign, not essential |
| inception | the beginning, start |
| infirmity | a weakness or ailment |
| jejune | lacking in nutritive value or substance, immature, juvenile |
| obdurate | stubborn |
| potpourri | a collection of miscellaneous items, a mixture |
| precocious | showing unusually early development |
| sadistic | delighting in cruelty |
| sententious | self-righteous, given to use of maxims |
| supplicate | to beg earnestly and humbly |
| surfeit | an excess or overindulgence |
| tortuous | winding, twisted, highly complex |
| turgid | swollen, bloated, overdecorated |