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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 (pl., criteria) | (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, 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 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 or excess |
| Tortuous | (adj.) Winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious |
| Turgid | (adj.) Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language |
