Unit 6 Vocab

Question 1

Amenable

Answer 1

ready or willing to answer, act, agree, or yield; open to influence, persuasion, or advice; agreeable; submissive; tractable

Question 2

Berate

Answer 2

to scold; rebuke:

Question 3

Carnage

Answer 3

the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre.

Question 4

Credulous

Answer 4

willing to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullible.

Question 5

Criterion

Answer 5

a standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for evaluating or testing something.

Question 6

Deplete

Answer 6

to decrease seriously or exhaust the abundance or supply of:

Question 7

Expatiate

Answer 7

to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion:

Question 8

Extraneous

Answer 8

introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign:

Question 9

Inception

Answer 9

beginning; start; commencement.

Question 10

Infirmity

Answer 10

a physical weakness or ailment:

Question 11

Jejune

Answer 11

without interest or significance; dull; insipid:

Question 12

Obdurate

Answer 12

unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.

Question 13

Potpourri

Answer 13

a mixture of dried petals of roses or other flowers with spices, kept in a jar for their fragrance.

Question 14

Precocious

Answer 14

unusually advanced or mature in development, especially mental development:

Question 15

Sadistic

Answer 15

pertaining to or characterized by sadism; deriving pleasure from extreme cruelty:

Question 16

Sententious

Answer 16

abounding in pithy aphorisms or maxims:

Question 17

Supplicate

Answer 17

to pray humbly; make humble and earnest entreaty or petition.

Question 18

Surfeit

Answer 18

excess; an excessive amount:

Question 19

Tortuous

Answer 19

full of twists, turns, or bends; twisting, winding, or crooked:

Question 20

Turgid

Answer 20

swollen; distended; tumid.