| A | B |
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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 deceived |
| criterion | (n.) a rule, test; a standard for judgment 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, etc.) |
| jejune | (adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immatrue, juvenile |
| objurate | (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 |
