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| 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 decieved |
| Crtierion | n) a rule, test; a standard for judgement 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 |
| Extraneous | (adj) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
| Inception | n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. |
| Infirmity | (n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral) |
| Jejune | (adj) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immatuve, juvenile |
| Obdurate | (adj) stubborn, unyielding |
| Potpourri | (n) A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent |
| Precocious | (adj) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) |
| Sadistic | (adj) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
| Sententious | (adj) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy |
| Supplicate | (v) to beg earnestly and humbly |
| Surfeit | (n) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) to feed or 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 |
