week 7

Question 1

amenable

Answer 1

open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.

Question 2

berate

Answer 2

scold or criticize (someone) angrily.

Question 3

carnage

Answer 3

great and usually bloody slaughter or injury
or
the killing of a large number of people.

Question 4

credulous

Answer 4

having or showing too great a readiness to believe things.

Question 5

criterion

Answer 5

a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided.

Question 6

deplete

Answer 6

use up the supply or resources of.

Question 7

expatiate

Answer 7

speak or write at length or in detail.

Question 8

extraneous

Answer 8

irrelevant or unrelated to the subject being dealt with.

Question 9

inception

Answer 9

the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity.

Question 10

infirmity

Answer 10

physical or mental weakness.

Question 11

jejune

Answer 11

naive, simplistic, and superficial.
or
(of ideas or writings) dry and uninteresting.

Question 12

obdurate

Answer 12

stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion or course of action.

Question 13

potpourri

Answer 13

a mixture of things, especially a musical or literary medley.
or

a mixture of dried petals and spices placed in a bowl or small sack to perfume clothing or a room.

Question 14

precocious

Answer 14

indicative of early development.

Question 15

sadistic

Answer 15

deriving pleasure from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.

Question 16

sententious

Answer 16

given to moralizing in a pompous or affected manner.

Question 17

supplicate

Answer 17

ask or beg for something earnestly or humbly.

Question 18

surfeit

Answer 18

an excessive amount of something.
or
cause (someone) to desire no more of something as a result of having consumed or done it to excess.

Question 19

tortuous

Answer 19

full of twists and turns.
or
excessively lengthy and complex.

Question 20

turgid

Answer 20

swollen and distended or congested.
or
tediously pompous or bombastic.(inflated)