Sadlier Unit 14

Question 1

amenable

Answer 1

willing to follow authority, tractable, liable, submissive

Question 2

berate

Answer 2

to scold sharply

Question 3

carnage

Answer 3

large-scale slaughter or loss of life

Question 4

credulous

Answer 4

too ready to believe, easily decieved

Question 5

criterion

Answer 5

A rule, standard for judgment or evaluation

Question 6

deplete

Answer 6

to use as a result of spending or consumption, to diminish

Question 7

expatiate

Answer 7

to expand on, write, or talk

Question 8

extraneous

Answer 8

coming from the outside foreign, irrelevant or excess

Question 9

inception

Answer 9

the beginning, start, earliest stage

Question 10

infirmity

Answer 10

a weakness or ailment

Question 11

jejune

Answer 11

lacking in nutritive value, juvenile, insubstantial

Question 12

obdurate

Answer 12

stubborn, unyielding

Question 13

potpourri

Answer 13

a collection of diverse items, a mixture

Question 14

precocious

Answer 14

showing unusually early development

Question 15

sadistic

Answer 15

delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

Question 16

setentious

Answer 16

self-righteous, characterized by moralizing, pithy

Question 17

supplicate

Answer 17

to be earnestly and humbly

Question 18

surfeit

Answer 18

an excess or overindulgence, causing disgust, to feed or supply in excess

Question 19

tortuous

Answer 19

winding, twisted, crooked, devious

Question 20

turgid

Answer 20

swollen, bloated, filled to excess