| Term | Definition |
|---|
| obdurate | stubborn, unyielding; adamant, obstinate |
| supplicate | to plead, petition, implore, entreat |
| turgid | inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown |
| potpourri | a hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley |
| sadistic | brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish |
| tortuous | circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine |
| ostensible | apparent, professed, purported |
| providential | fortunate, lucky, opportune |
| precocious | forward, gifted, advanced |
| surfeit | an excess, glut, to cloy, satiate |
| sententious | aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic |
| expatiate | to elaborate, enlarge, descant; to wander, roam |
| infirmity | an ailment, affliction, malady; a defect |
| inception | a commencement, inauguration, outset |
| berate | to chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand |
| deplete | to exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt, |
| carnage | slaughter, butchery, a bloodbath, massacre |
| jejune | childish, juvenile; vapid, insipid, puerile |
| criterion | a yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon |
| amenable | agreeable, compliant; docile, tractable |
| extraneous | incidental, extrinsic; irrelevant |
| credulous | gullible |
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