Vocab 14

Question 1

Berate

Answer 1

To rebuke or scold severely and at length

Question 2

Carnage

Answer 2

Massive slaughter as in battle

Question 3

Credulous

Answer 3

Inclined to believe or trust too quickly

Question 4

Criterion

Answer 4

The set standard by which one determines judgment or conclusion; a rule for evaluation

Question 5

Deplete

Answer 5

The reduce or lessen seriously by use, exhaustion or waste

Question 6

Expatiate

Answer 6

To speak or write at length in detail; to wander freely

Question 7

Extraneous

Answer 7

Coming from the outside and not belonging; irrelevant

Question 8

Inception

Answer 8

The beginning or start of something

Question 9

Infirmity

Answer 9

A physical, mental, or moral weakness or flaw

Question 10

Jejune

Answer 10

Lacking in interest or significance; deficient in nutritious value

Question 11

Obdurate

Answer 11

Unyielding and stubborn

Question 12

Ostensible

Answer 12

Outwardly apparent but not necessarily so

Question 13

Potpourri

Answer 13

A miscellaneous mixture of unrelated things

Question 14

Precocious

Answer 14

An early or premature development in talents or thought

Question 15

Providential

Answer 15

Appearing to happen by divine guidance; good fortune

Question 16

Sadistic

Answer 16

The deriving of pleasure, or the tendency to derive pleasure, from cruelty

Question 17

Sententious

Answer 17

Given to excessive moralizing, self righteous; concise; given to using sayings or maxims

Question 18

Supplicate

Answer 18

To beg

Question 19

Surfeit

Answer 19

An excessive overindulgence, as in eating or drinking

Question 20

Tortuous

Answer 20

Full of repeated twists, turns and bends, complex

Question 21

Turgid

Answer 21

Excessively ornate or complex in style or language

Question 22

Amendable

Answer 22

Willing or ready to submit, agree or follow