14 Flashcards
(20 cards)
Amenable
(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive;
liable to be held responsible
Berate
(v.) to scold sharply
Carnage
(n.) large scale slaughter or loss of life
Credulous
(adj.) too ready to believe, easily deceived
Criterion
(n.) a rule, test;
a standard for judgment or evaluation
Deplete
(v.) to use up as a result of spending or consumption;
to diminish greatly
Expatiate
(v.) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail;
to move about freely
Extraneous
(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign;
present but not essential, irrelevant
Inception
(n.) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process
Infirmity
(n.) a weakness or aliment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)
Jejune
(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance;
immature
Obdurate
(adj.) stubborn, unyielding
Potpourri
(n.) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items;
a general mixture;
petals mixed with spices for scent
Precocious
(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
Sadistic
(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
Sententious
(adj.) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing;
given to use of maxims or adages;
saying much in few words, pithy
Supplicate
(v.) to beg earnestly and humbly
Surfeit
(n.) an excuse or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust;
(v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess
Tortuous
(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked;
highly involved, complex; devious
Turgid
(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled to excess;
overdecorated or excessive language
