Level F Unit 14 Vocabulary: Word List & Interactive Quizlet Study Guide
Word List
- amenable
(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible - jejune
(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile - berate
(v.) to scold sharply - obdurate
(adj.) stubborn, unyielding - carnage
(n.) large-scale slaughter or loss of life - potpourri
(n.) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent - credulous
(adj.) too ready to believe, easily deceived - precocious
(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) - criterion
(n.) a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation - sadistic
(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel - deplete
(v.) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly - sententious
(adj.) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy - expatriate
(v.) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely - supplicate
(v.) to beg earnestly and humbly - extraneous
(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant - surfeit
(n.) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess - inception
(n.) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. - tortuous
(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious - infirmity
(n.) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) - turgid
(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive language
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