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willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
S: agreeable, compliant, docile
A: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant |
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to scold sharply
S: chide, rebuke, reporve, reprimand
A: praise, compliment, pat on the back |
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large-scale slaughter or loss of life
S: butchery, bloodbath |
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to ready to believe, easily deceived
S: gullible
A: dubious, skeptical |
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a rule, test; a standard for judgement or evaluation
S: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon |
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to use up aas a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
S: empty, drain, bankrupt
A: replenish, refill, restock, resupply |
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to expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
S: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam
A: adumbrate, sketch rougly |
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coming form the outside, foreign; present but not esential, irrelevant
S: incidental, extrinsic
A: intrinsic, pertinent, germane |
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| the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, insitution, etc. |
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a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, oral, etc.)
S: affliction, malady, defect |
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lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile
S: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish |
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stubborn, unyielding
S: obsitnate, adamant
A: yielding, tractable, flexible |
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A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
S: hodgepodge, melange, farrago, medley
A: homogenous or uniform group |
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showing unusually early development(especially in talents and mental capactiy)
S: forward, gifted, advanced
A: backward, retarded, slow |
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delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
S: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish
A: masochistic, clement, humane, mericful |
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self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy
S: aphoristic, epigrammatic, moralistic
A: discursive, diffuse, episodic |
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to beg earnestly and humbly
S: plead, petition, implore, entreat |
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an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess
S: excess, glut; cloy, satiate
A: dearth, paucity, lack |
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winding, twisted, crooked; higly involved, complex; devious
S: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine
A: direct, straight, straightforward |
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swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language
S: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown
A: muted, understated, unadorned, austere |
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