| Term | Definition |
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| amenable | adj. willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be responsible syn: agreeable, compliant, docile |
| berate | v. to scold sharply syn: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand |
| carnage | n. large-scale slaughter or loss of life syn: butchery, bloodbath, massarce |
| credulous | adj. too ready to believe, easily deceived syn: gullible |
| criterion | n. a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation syn: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon |
| deplete | v. to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly |
| expatiate | v. to expand on, write or talk to length or in detail; to move about freely syn: elaborate, enlarge, deseant, wander, roam |
| extraneous | adj. coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant syn: incidental, extrinsic |
| inception | n. the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. syn: commencement, inauguration, outset |
| infirmity | n. a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) syn: affliction, malady, defect |
| jejune | adj. lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile syn: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish |
| obdurate | adj. stubborn, unyielding syn: obstinate, adamant |
| potpourri | n. a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with species for scent syn: hodegepodge, mélange, farrago, medley |
| precocious | adj. showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) syn: forward, gifted, advanced |
| sadistic | adj. delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel syn: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish |
| sententious | adj. self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy syn: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic |
| supplicate | v. to beg earnestly and humbly syn: plead, petition, implore, entreat |
| surfeit | n. an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust v. to feed or supply with anything to excess syn: (n) excess, gult; (v) cloy, satiate |
| tortuous | adj. winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious syn: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine |
| turgid | adj. swollen, bloated, filled ot excess; overdecorated or excessive in language syn: inflated, pompus, bombastic, overblown |
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