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20 Cards in this Set
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Amenable
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(adj) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
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Berate |
(v) to scold sharply
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Carnage |
(n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life
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Credulous |
(adj) too ready to believe, easily deceived, gullible
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Criterion |
(n) a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaulation |
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Deplete |
(v) to use up a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly |
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Expatiate |
expatiate(v) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely |
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Extraneous |
(adj) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
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Inception |
(n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution |
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Infirmity |
(n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral) |
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Jejune |
(adj) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in intereest or substance; immature, juvenile |
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Obdurate |
(adj) stubborn, unyielding |
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Potpourri |
(n) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent |
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Precocious |
(adj) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) |
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Sadistic |
(adj) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
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Sententious |
(adj) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words; pithy |
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Supplicate |
(v) to beg earnestly and humbly |
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Surfeit |
(n) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) to feed or supply with anything to excess |
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Tortuous |
(adj) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious |
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Turgid |
(adj) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive language
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