| 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 |
| 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; immature, 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 and 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, over-decorated or excessive in languag |
