Unit 14

Question 1

amenable

Answer 1

willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible

Question 2

berate

Answer 2

to scold sharply

Question 3

carnage

Answer 3

large-scale slaughter or loss of life

Question 4

credulous

Answer 4

too ready to believe, easily deceived

Question 5

criterion

Answer 5

a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation

Question 6

deplete

Answer 6

to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly

Question 7

expatiate

Answer 7

to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely

Question 8

extraneous

Answer 8

coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant

Question 9

inception

Answer 9

the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc.

Question 10

infirmity

Answer 10

a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)

Question 11

jejune

Answer 11

lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile

Question 12

obdurate

Answer 12

stubborn, unyielding

Question 13

potpourri

Answer 13

a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent

Question 14

precocious

Answer 14

showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)

Question 15

sadistic

Answer 15

delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

Question 16

sententious

Answer 16

self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy

Question 17

supplicate

Answer 17

to beg earnestly and humbly

Question 18

surfeit

Answer 18

an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess

Question 19

tortuous

Answer 19

winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious

Question 20

turgid

Answer 20

swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language