| A | B |
|---|
| amenable | willing to follow advice or authority |
| berate | to scold sharply |
| carnage | large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
| credulous | too ready to believe, easily decieved |
| criterion | a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation |
| deplete | to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to dimish greatly |
| expatiate | to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail |
| extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant |
| inception | the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process |
| infirmity | a weakness or ailment |
| jejune | lacking in nutritive value; lacking interest or value |
| obdurate | stubborn, unyeilding |
| potpourri | a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items |
| precocious | showing unusually early development |
| sadistic | delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel |
| sententious | self-righteous, characterized by moralizing |
| supplicate | to beg earnestly and humbly |
| surfeit | an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking |
| tortous | winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved |
| turgid | swollen, bloated, filled to excess |
