Vocabulary Unit 14 - Level F

amenable

(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible synonyms: agreeable, docile antonyms: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant

berate

antonyms: compliment, pat on the back

carnage

(n.) large-scale slaughter or loss of life

credulous

antonyms: dubious

criterion

synonyms: gauge

deplete

synonyms: exhaust, bankrupt

expatiate

(v.) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely synonyms: elaborate, enlarge, descant, roam antonyms: adumbrate

extraneous

synonyms: incidental antonyms: relevant, pertinent, germane

inception

(n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. synonyms: outset

infirmity

(n.) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) synonyms: affliction, malady

jejune

(adj) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile synonyms: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish antonyms: stimulating, mature

obdurate

synonyms: obstinate, adamant antonyms: tractable

potpourri

synonyms: farrago

precocious

(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) synonyms: forward, advanced antonyms: backward

sadistic

synonyms: fiendish antonyms: masochistic, clement, merciful

sententious

(adj.) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy synonyms: aphoristic, epigrammatic antonyms: discursive, diffuse, episodic

supplicate

synonyms: implore, entreat

surfeit

(n.) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess synonyms: (n.) glut; (v.) cloy, satiate antonyms: (n.) dearth, paucity

tortuous

(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious synonyms: serpentine, labyrinthine

turgid

(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language synonyms: inflated antonyms: muted, understated, unadorned, austere