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