click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Sadlier Oxford F-14
Level F Unit 14 words
Question | Answer |
---|---|
willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible | Amenable |
to scold sharply | Berate |
Large-scale slaughter or loss of life | Carnage |
Too ready to believe, easily deceived | Credulous |
A rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation | Criterion |
To use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly | Deplete |
to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely | Expatiate |
coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant | Extraneous |
the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc... | Inception |
a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc.) | Infirmity |
lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile | Jejune |
stubborn, unyielding | Obdurate |
A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent | Potpourri |
unusually early development (esp in talents or mental capability) | Precocious |
Delighting in cruelty, excessive cruelty | Sadistic |
Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy | Setentious |
to beg earnestly and humbly | Supplicate |
an excessive or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess | Surfeit |
, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious | Tortuous |
swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language | Turgid |