Unit 14 Vocabulary Flashcards
Amenable
(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive; liable to be held responsible
S: agreeable, compliant, docile
A: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant
Berate
(v) to scold sharply
S: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
A: praise, compliment, pat on the back
Carnage
(n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life
S; butchery, blood bath, massacre
Credulous
(adj.) too ready to believe, easily deceived
S: gullible
A: dubious, skeptical
Criterion
(n) a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation
S: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
Deplete
(v) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
S: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt
A: replenish, refill, restock, resupply
Expatiate
(v) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
S: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
A: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, abumbrate
Extraneous
(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
S: incidental, extrinsic
A: intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane
Inception
(n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution etc.
S: commencement, inauguration, outset
A: completion, conclusion, termination
Infirmity
(n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)
S: affliction, malady, defect
Jejune
(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
S: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
A: stimulating, mature
Obdurate
(adj.) stubborn, unyielding
S: obstinate, adamant
A: yielding, tractable, flexible
Potpourri
(n) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
S: hodgepodge, mélange, farrago, medly
A: homogenous or uniform group
Precocious
(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
S: forward, gifted, advanced
A: backward, retarted, slow
Sadistic
(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
S: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish
A: masochistic, clement, humane, merciful
Sententious
(adj.) self-rightious, characterized by moralizing; given to use or maxims of r adages; saying much in few words, pithy
S: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic
A: discursive, diffuse, episodic
Supplicate
(v) to beg earnestly and humbly
S: plead, petition, implore, entreat
Surfeit
(n) an express or overindulgence as in eating and drinking, causinf disgust
(v) to feed or supply with anything to excess
S: (n) excess, glut; (v) cloy, satiate
A: (n) dearth, paucity, lack
Torturous
(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked; high involved, complex, devious
S: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
A: direct, straight, straightforward
Turgid
(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled with excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
S: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
A: muted, understated, unadorned, austere
