Vocab 1
Lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or subtance; immature, juvenile
Jejune
Winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious
Tortuous
Stubborn, unyielding
Obdurate
To use as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly
Deplete
Showing unusually early development (especially in talents and mental capacity)
Precocious
To expand on, write or talk at length or in detail; to move about freely
Expatiate
A rule, test; a standard for judgment or evaluation
Criterion
An excess or overindulgence, such as eating or drinking, causes disgust; to feed or supply with anything to excess
Surfeit
A collection of diverse or miscellaneous items; a general mixture; petals mixed with spices for scent
Potpourri
Self-righteous, characterized by moralizing; given to use of maxims or adages; saying much in few words, pithy
Sententious
A weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral, etc)
Infirmity
Willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible
Amenable
Delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel
Sadistic
The beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc
Inception
To beg earnestly and humbly
Supplicate
Large-scale slaughter or loss of life
Carnage
Too ready to believe, easily deceived
Credulous
To scold sharply
Berate
Swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive language
Turgid
Coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrelevant
Extraneous