Vocab 14

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

Inception

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

Infirmity

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

Extraneous

(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant

Jejune

(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; inmature, juvenile

Obdurate

(adj.) stubborn, unyielding

Potpourri

(n.) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mied with spices for scent

Sadistic

(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

Precocious

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

Sententious

(adj.) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy

Suplicate

(v.) to beg earnestly and humbly

Surfeit

(n.) an excess or overindulgence as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v.) to feed ir supply with anything to excess

Tortuous

(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious

Turgid

(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language