| A | B |
|---|
| amenable | willing to follow advice or authority, agreeable |
| berate | v. to scold sharply, rebuke |
| carnage | n. large scale slaughter or loss of life. |
| credulous | to 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 to diminish greatly, empty drain. |
| jejune | lacking in nutritive value in interest or substance. |
| precocious | showing unusually early development. |
| sadistic | delighting in cruelty, brutal, vicious, inhuman. |
| tortuous | winding twisted crooked highly involved complex devious. |
| brouhaha | n. uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is just. |
| cloy | v. to spoil or destroy appetite. |
| enigmatic | puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood. |
| impromptu | without preparation suddenly or hastily done. |
| mawkish | excessively and objectionably sentimental having a midly sickening flavor. |
| mollify | v. to soften, making gentle, pacify, to calm. |
| thwart | v. to oppose successfully to prevent |
| abet | v/ to encourage assist aid, support . |
| buttress | to support pro up, brace shore up. |
| collate | v/ to compare critically in order to note differences similarties, sort out cross check rearrange. |
| foment | v/ to promote trouble or rebellion, to apply warm liquids. |
| prolific | abundantly productive. |
| rejoinder | n/ reply to a reply especially from a defendant in a legal suit. |
| abet | To encourage, to assist, to aid |
| Buttress | To support, to prop up, to strengthen |
| Carousal | Merrymaking, partying, heavy drinking, |
| Opportune | uitable or convenient for a purpose, occurring at an appropriate time |
| extenuate | to lesson the seriousness of, to downplay the importance of(She told her mom that she was tardy for class and her mom thought that there were extenuating reasons so she did not get in trouble.) |
| ostentatious | showy, flashy, overdone (The lighting in the hall was ostentatious.) |
| sanctimonious | making a show of virtue or righteousness (The man went to church and he pretended to be good but he was sanctimonious because he gambled every night. |
