Unit 14 Vocabulary

  1. Amendable
    Willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
  2. Berate
    To scold sharply
  3. Carnage
    Large-scale slaughter or loss of life
  4. Credulous
    Too ready to believe, easily deceived
  5. Criterion
    A rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation
  6. Deplete
    To use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
  7. Expatiate
    To expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
  8. Extraneous
    Coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
  9. Inception
    The beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc
  10. Infirmity
    A weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)
  11. Jejune
    Lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
  12. Obdurate
    Stubborn, Unyielding
  13. Potpourri
    A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
  14. Precocious
    Showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
  15. Sadistic
    Delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
  16. Sententious
    Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy
  17. Supplicate
    To beg earnestly and humbly
  18. Surfeit
    An excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; *V* To feed or supply with anything to excess
  19. Tortuous
    Winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious
  20. Turgid
    Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
  21. Form of AMENDABLE
    ADJECTIVE
  22. Form of BERATE
    VERB
  23. Form of CARNAGE
    NOUN
  24. Form of CREDULOUS
    ADJECTIVE
  25. Form of CRITERION
    NOUN
  26. Form of DEPLETE
    VERB
  27. Form of EXPATIATE
    VERB
  28. Form of EXTRANEOUS
    ADJECTIVE
  29. Form of INCEPTION
    NOUN
  30. Form of INFIRMITY
    NOUN
  31. Form of JEJUNE
    ADJECTIVE
  32. Form of OBDURATE
    ADJECTIVE
  33. Form of POTPOURRI
    NOUN
  34. Form of PRECOCIOUS
    ADJECTIVE
  35. Form of SADISTIC
    ADJECTIVE
  36. Form of SENTENTIOUS
    ADJECTIVE
  37. Form of SUPPLICATE
    VERB
  38. Form of SURFEIT
    NOUN
  39. Form of TORTUOUS
    ADJECTIVE
  40. Form of TURGID
    ADJECTIVE
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