Sadlier Level F Unit 14 Vocabulary

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VOCABUNIT 14 FLASHCARDS

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

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amenable

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(v.) to scold sharply SYNONYMS: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand ANTONYMS: praise, compliment, pat on the back

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berate

(n.) large-scale slaughter or loss of life SYNONYMS: butchery, bloodbath, massacre

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carnage

(adj.) too ready to believe, easily deceived SYNONYMS: gullible, trusting ANTONYMS: dubious, skeptical

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credulous

(n.) a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation SYNONYMS: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

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criterion

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

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deplete

(v.) to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely SYNONYMS: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam ANTONYMS: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate

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expatiate

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

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extraneous

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

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inception

(n.) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) SYNONYMS: affliction, malady, defect

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infirmity

(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile SYNONYMS: puerile, childish ANTONYMS: stimulating, mature

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jejune

(adj.) stubborn, unyielding SYNONYMS: obstinate, adamant ANTONYMS: tractable, flexible

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obdurate

(n.) a collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent SYNONYMS: hodgepodge, farrago, medley ANTONYMS: homogeneous or uniform group

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potpourri

(adj.) showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) SYNONYMS: gifted, advanced ANTONYMS: backward, slow

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precocious

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

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sadistic

(adj.) self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy SYNONYMS: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic ANTONYMS: discursive, diffuse, episodic

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sententious

(v.) to beg earnestly and humbly SYNONYMS: plead, petition, implore

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supplicate

(n.) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust (v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess SYNONYMS: (n.) glut; (v.) satiate ANTONYMS: (n.) dearth, paucity

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surfeit

(adj.) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious SYNONYMS: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine ANTONYMS: direct, straight, straightforward

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tortuous

(adj.) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive language SYNONYMS: inflated, pompous, bombastic ANTONYMS: understated, unadorned, austere

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turgid

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