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amenable
- willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive, responsive, liable to be held responsible
- syn- agreeable, compliant, docile
- ant- unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant
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berate
- to scold sharply
- syn- chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand
- ant- praise, compliment, pat on the back
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carnage
- large-scale slaughter or loss of life
- syn- butchery, bloodbath, massacre
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credulous
- too ready to believe, easily deceived
- syn- gullible
- ant- dubious, skeptical
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criterion
- a rule test, a standard for judgement or evaluation
- syn- yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon
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deplete
- to use up as a result of spending or consumption, to diminish greatly
- syn- exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt
- ant- replenish, refill, restock, resupply
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expatiate
- to expand on, write or talk at lenght or in detail, to move about freely
- syn- elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
- ant- sketch roughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate
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extraneous
- coming from the outside, foreign, present but not essential, irrelevant
- syn- incidental, extrinsic
- ant- intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane
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inception
- the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process , insitution, etc
- syn- commencement, inauguration, outset
- ant- completion, conclusion, termination
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infirmity
- a weakness or ailment
- syn- affliction, malady, defect
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jejune
- lacking in nutritive value, lacking in interest or substance, immature, juvenile
- syn- vapid, insipid, puerile, childish
- ant- stimulating, mature
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obdurate
- stubborn, unyielding
- syn- obstinate, adamant
- ant- yielding, tractable, flexible
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potpourri
- a collection of diverse of miscellaneous items, a general mixture, petals mixed with spices for a scent
- syn- hodgepode, melange, farrago, medley
- ant- homogenous or uniform group
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precocius
- showing unusually early development especially in mental capacity
- syn- forward, gifted, advanced
- ant- backward, retarded, slow
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sadistic
- delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
- syn- brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish
- ant- masochistic, clement, human, merciful
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sententious
- self-righteous, characterized by moralizing, given to use of maxims or adages, saying much in a few words, pithy
- syn- aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic
- ant- discursive, diffuse, episodic
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supplicate
- to beg earnestly and humbly
- snyn- plead petition, implore, entreat
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surfeit
- an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, caausing disgust, to feed or supply with anything to excess
- syn- excess, glut, cloy, satiate
- ant- dearth, paucity, lack
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tortuous
- winding, twisted, crooked, highly involved, complex, devious
- syn- circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthe
- ant- direct, straight, straightforward
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turgid
- swollen, bloated, filled to excess, overdecorate or excessive in language
- ayn- inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
- ant- muted, understated, unadorned, austere
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