Sadlier Level F Unit 14 Vocabulary

Amenable

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

Amenable (SYN)

SYN: agreeable, compliant, docile

Amenable (ANT)

ANT: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant

Berate

to scold sharply

Berate (SYN)

SYN: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand

Berate (ANT)

ANT: praise, compliment, pat on the back

Carnage

large-scale slaughter or loss of life

Carnage (SYN)

SYN: butchery, bloodbath, massacre

Credulous

too ready to believe, easily deceived

Credulous (SYN)

SYN: gullible, trusting

Credulous (ANT)

ANT: dubious, skeptical

Criterion

a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation

Criterion (SYN)

SYN: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

Deplete

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

Deplete (SYN)

SYN: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt

Deplete (ANT)

ANT: replenish, refill, restock, resupply

Expatiate

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

Expatiate (SYN)

SYN: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam

Expatiate (ANT)

ANT: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate

Extraneous

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

Extraneous (SYN)

SYN: incidental, extrinsic, adventitious

Extraneous (ANT)

ANT: intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane

Inception

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

Inception (SYN)

SYN: commencement, inauguration, outset

Inception (ANT)

ANT: completion, conclusion, termination

Infirmity

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

Infirmity (SYN)

SYN: affliction, malady, defect

Jejune

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

Jejune (SYN)

SYN: puerile, childish

Jejune (ANT)

ANT: stimulating, mature

Obdurate

stubborn, unyielding

Obdurate (SYN)

SYN: obstinate, adamant

Obdurate (ANT)

ANT: tractable, flexible

Potpourri

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

Potpourri (SYN)

SYN: hodgepodge, farrago, medley

Potpourri (ANT)

ANT: homogeneous or uniform group

Precocious

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

Precocious (SYN)

SYN: gifted, advanced

Precocious (ANT)

ANT: backward, slow

Sadistic

delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

Sadistic (SYN)

SYN: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish, masochistic

Sadistic (ANT)

ANT: clement, humane, merciful

Sententious

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

Sententious (SYN)

SYN: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic

Sententious (ANT)

ANT: discursive, diffuse, episodic

Supplicate

to beg earnestly and humbly

Supplicate (SYN)

SYN: plead, petition, implore

Surfeit

(noun) an excessive or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust

(verb) to feed or supply with anything to excess

Surfeit (SYN)

SYN (noun): glut

SYN (verb): satiate

Surfeit (ANT)

ANT (noun): dearth, paucity

Tortuous

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

Tortuous (SYN)

SYN: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine

Tortuous (ANT)

ANT: direct, straight, straightforward

Turgid

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

Turgid (SYN)

SYN: inflated, pompous, bombastic

Turgid (ANT)

ANT: understated, unadorned, austere