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Vocabulary Workshop

Vocabulary Workshop. Unit 14. AMENABLE (adj.) . Willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible Syn : agreeable, compliant, docile Ant: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant. BERATE (v.). To scold sharply

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Vocabulary Workshop

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  1. Vocabulary Workshop Unit 14

  2. AMENABLE (adj.) • Willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible • Syn: agreeable, compliant, docile • Ant: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant

  3. BERATE (v.) • To scold sharply • Syn: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand • Ant: praise, compliment, pat on the back

  4. CARNAGE (n.) • Large-scale slaughter or loss of life • Syn: butchery, bloodbath, massacre

  5. CREDULOUS (adj.) • Too ready to believe, easily deceived • Syn: gullible • Ant: dubious, skeptical

  6. CRITERION (plural=criteria) • (n.) a rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation • Syn: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

  7. DEPLETE (v.) • To use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly

  8. EXPATIATE (v.) What comes next?..... Topic Sentence Assertion Example… • To expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely • Syn: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam • Ant: sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate

  9. EXTRANEOUS (adj.) • Coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant • Syn: incidental, extrinsic • Ant: intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane One handy way to dodge a difficult question is to earnestly begin talking about something EXTRANEOUS to the subject.

  10. INCEPTION (n.) • The beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc… • Syn: commencement, inauguration, outset • Ant: completion, conclusion, termination

  11. INFIRMITY (n.) • A weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc…) • Syn: affliction, malady, defect

  12. JEJUNE (adj.) • Lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile • Syn: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish • Ant: stimulating, mature

  13. OBDURATE (adj.) • Stubborn, unyielding • Syn: obstinate, adamant • Ant: yielding, tractable, flexible

  14. POTPOURRI (n.) • A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture, petals mixed with spices for scent • Syn: hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley • Ant: homogenous or uniform group

  15. PRECOCIOUS (adj.) • Showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity) • Syn: forward, gifted, advanced • Ant: backward, retarded, slow

  16. SADISTIC (adj.) • Delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel • Syn: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish • Ant: masochistic, clement, humane, merciful

  17. SENTENTIOUS (adj.) • Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy • Syn: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic • Ant: discursive, diffuse, episodic

  18. SUPPLICATE (v.) • To beg earnestly and humbly • Syn: plead, petition, implore, entreat

  19. SURFEIT • (n.) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust (v.) to feed or supply with anything to excess • Syn: excess, glut, cloy, satiate • Ant: dearth, paucity, lack

  20. TORTUOUS (adj.) • Winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious • Syn: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine • Ant: direct, straight, straightforward

  21. TURGID (adj.) • Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; over-decorated or excessive in language • Syn: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown • Ant: muted, understated, unadorned, austere

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