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