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40 Cards in this Set
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willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
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amenable
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to scold sharply
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berate
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large-scale slaughter or loss of life
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carnage
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too ready to believe, easily deceived
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credulous
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a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation
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criterion
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to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
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deplete
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to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
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expatiate
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coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
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extraneous
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the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, insitution, etc.
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inception
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a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)
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infirmity
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stubborn, unyielding
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obdurate
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lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile
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jejune
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a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
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potpourri
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showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
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precocious
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delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
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sadistic
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self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy
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sententious
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to beg earnestly and humbly
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supplicate
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an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess
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surfeit
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winding, twisted, crooked; hightly involved, complex; devious
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tortuous
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swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
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turgid
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syn. inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
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turgid
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syn. circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
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tortuous
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syn. excess, glut, cloy, satiate
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surfeit
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syn. plead, petition, implore, entreat
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supplicate
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syn. aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic
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sententious
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syn. brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish
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sadistic
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syn. foward, gifted, advanced
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precocious
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syn. elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
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expatiate
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syn. incidental, extrinsic
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extraneous
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syn. commencement, inauguration, outset
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inception
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s vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
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jejune
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s obstinate, adamant
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obdurate
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s hodgepodge, melandge, farrago, medley
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potpourri
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s exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt
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deplete
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s yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
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criterion
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s gullible
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credulous
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syn. butchery, bloodbath, massacre
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carnage
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syn. chide, rebuke, reprove, repreimand
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berate
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s agreeable, compliant, docile
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amenable
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s affliction, malady, defect
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infirmity
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