| A | B |
|---|
| amenable | willing to follow advice or authority |
| berate | to scold sharply |
| carnage | large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
| credulous | to ready to believe, easily deceived |
| criterion | a rule, test |
| deplete | to use as a result of spending or consumption |
| expatiate | to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail |
| extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign |
| inception | the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. |
| infirmity | a weakness or ailment |
| jejune | lacking in nutritive value |
| obdurate | stubborn, unyielding |
| potpourri | a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items |
| precocious | showing unusually early development |
| sadistic | delighting in cruelty |
| sententious | self-righteous, characterized by moralizing |
| supplicate | to beg earnestly and humbly |
| surfeit | an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust |
| tortuous | winding, twisted, crooked |
| turgid | swollen, bloated, filled to excess |
