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bkhs 11/F unit 14
sadlier-oxford vocab workshop level f unit 14
Question | Answer |
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amenable | willing to follow advice or authority; submissive |
berate | to scold sharply |
carnage | large-scale slaughter or loss of life |
credulous | too ready to believe, easily deceived |
criterion | a rule, test; standard for evaluation |
deplete | to use up as a result of spending or consumption |
expatiate | to expand on, write or talk at leangth or in detail |
extraneous | coming from the outside, foreign, not essential |
inception | the beginning, start |
infirmity | a weakness or ailment |
jejune | lacking in nutritive value or substance, immature, juvenile |
obdurate | stubborn |
potpourri | a collection of miscellaneous items, a mixture |
precocious | showing unusually early development |
sadistic | delighting in cruelty |
sententious | self-righteous, given to use of maxims |
supplicate | to beg earnestly and humbly |
surfeit | an excess or overindulgence |
tortuous | winding, twisted, highly complex |
turgid | swollen, bloated, overdecorated |