Unit 14 Vocabulary

Question 1

Amenable

Answer 1

(adj.) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive; liable to be held responsible
S: agreeable, compliant, docile
A: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant

Question 2

Berate

Answer 2

(v) to scold sharply
S: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
A: praise, compliment, pat on the back

Question 3

Carnage

Answer 3

(n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life

S; butchery, blood bath, massacre

Question 4

Credulous

Answer 4

(adj.) too ready to believe, easily deceived
S: gullible
A: dubious, skeptical

Question 5

Criterion

Answer 5

(n) a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation

S: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

Question 6

Deplete

Answer 6

(v) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
S: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt
A: replenish, refill, restock, resupply

Question 7

Expatiate

Answer 7

(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

Question 8

Extraneous

Answer 8

(adj.) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
S: incidental, extrinsic
A: intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane

Question 9

Inception

Answer 9

(n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution etc.
S: commencement, inauguration, outset
A: completion, conclusion, termination

Question 10

Infirmity

Answer 10

(n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.)

S: affliction, malady, defect

Question 11

Jejune

Answer 11

(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
S: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
A: stimulating, mature

Question 12

Obdurate

Answer 12

(adj.) stubborn, unyielding
S: obstinate, adamant
A: yielding, tractable, flexible

Question 13

Potpourri

Answer 13

(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

Question 14

Precocious

Answer 14

(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
S: forward, gifted, advanced
A: backward, retarted, slow

Question 15

Sadistic

Answer 15

(adj.) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
S: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish
A: masochistic, clement, humane, merciful

Question 16

Sententious

Answer 16

(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

Question 17

Supplicate

Answer 17

(v) to beg earnestly and humbly

S: plead, petition, implore, entreat

Question 18

Surfeit

Answer 18

(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

Question 19

Torturous

Answer 19

(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked; high involved, complex, devious
S: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
A: direct, straight, straightforward

Question 20

Turgid

Answer 20

(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled with excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
S: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
A: muted, understated, unadorned, austere