Vocab Unit 14

willing to follow advice or authority; liable to be held responsible

• a) Berate

• b) Carnage

• c) Amenable

• d) Expatiate

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

a weakness or ailment

• credulous

• extraneous

• infirmity

• berate

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely

• expatiate

• deplete

• potpourri

• amenable

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

The _______ advice, though wise, was too general to help their particular situation.

• turgid

• jejune

• criterion

• sententious

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6

Until television began to broadcast footage of war, the _______ of battle was rarely made real to far-off civilian populations.

• precocious

• carnage

• surfeit

• inception

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant

• tortuous

• sadistic

• obdurate

• extraneous

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

an excess or overindulgence as in eating or drinking causing disgust

• surfeit

• precocious

• inception

• carnage

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

He chose to _______ for mercy not on his own account, but so that his wife would not suffer.

• potpourri

• amenable

• supplicate

• deplete

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F

too ready to believe, easily deceived

• expatiate

• credulous

• jejune

• berate

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

CCSS.L.4.6

CCSS.RL.1.4

Vincent van Gogh was _______ in painting whatever he wished, even when no one would buy his work.

• turgid

• sententious

• credulous

• obdurate

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.6