(adj) willing to follow advice or authority, tractable, submissive; responsive; liable to be held responsible

Syn: agreeable, compliant, docile

Ant: unresponsive, resistant, recalcitrant

(v) to scold sharply

Syn: chide, rebuke, reprove, reprimand

Ant: praise, compliment, pat on the back

(n) large-scale slaughter or loss of life

Syn: butchery, bloodbath, massacre

(adj) too ready to believe, easily decieved

Syn: gullible

Ant: dubious, skeptical

(n) a rule, test; a standard, for judgement or evaluation

Syn: yardstick, touchstone, gauge, canon

(v) to use up as a result of spending or consumption; to diminish greatly

Syn: exhaust, empty, drain, bankrupt

Ant: replenish, refill, restock, resupply

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

Syn: elaborate, enlarge, descant, wander, roam

Ant: sketchroughly, summarize, condense, adumbrate

(adj) coming from the outside, foreign; present but not essential, irrevelant

Syn: incidental, extrinsic

Ant: intrinsic, relevant, pertinent, germane

(n) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process,  institution, etc.

Syn: commencement, inauguration, outset

Ant: completion, conclusion, termination

(n) a weakness or ailment (physical, mental, moral)

Syn: affliction, malady, defect

(adj.) lacking in nutritive value; lacking in interest or substance; immature, juvenile

Syn: vapid, insipid, puerile, childish

Ant: stimulating, mature

(adj) stubborn, unyielding

Syn: obstinate, adamant

Ant: yielding, tractable, flexible

(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

(adj) showing unusually early developement (especially in talents and mental capacity)

Syn: forward, gifted, advanced

Ant: backward, retarded, slow

(adj) delighting in cruelty, excessively cruel

Syn: brutal, vicious, inhuman, fiendish

Ant: masochistic, clement, humane, merciful

(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

(v) to beg earnestly and humbly

Syn: plead, petition, implore, entreat

(n) an excess or overindulgence, as in eating or drinking, causing disgust; (v) to feed or supply with anything to excess

Syn: (n) excess, glut; (v) cloy, satiate

Ant: (n) dearth, paucity, lack

(adj) winding, twisted, crooked; highly involved, complex; devious

Syn: circuitous, serpentine, labyrinthine

Ant: direct, straight, straightforward

(adj) swollen, bloated, filled to excess; overdecorated or excessive in language

Syn: inflated, pompous, bombastic, overblown

Ant: muted, understated, unadorned, austere

(adj) firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, obdurate, implacable, inflexible; (n) an extremely hard substance

Ant: (adj) yielding, flexible, pliable 

(n) a confused hodgepodge of sounds, hubbub; an uproar or commotion that goes far beyond what is justified

Syn: furor, hullabaloo, tumult, pandemonium

(n) a strong defense or protection, a solid wall-like structure for defense; (v) to provide such defense or protection

Syn: (n) stronghold, citadel, bastion, rampart

Ant: (n) breach, weak point in the defense

(adj) easily made angry, bad-tempered

Syn: irascible, testy, splenetic, bilious

Ant: afffable, genial, even-tempered

(v) to spoil or destroy an appetite by too much indulgence, especially in sweet or rich things; to glut, satiate, surfeit

Ant: stimulate, whet

(v) to cut short, bring to a halt or end sooner than expected; to reduce

Syn: limit, abbreviate, abridge, contract

Ant: protract, extend

(n) courteous yeilding to the wishes and ideas of another person; great respect marked by submission, as to a superior

Syn: respect, consideration, courtesy

Ant: contempt, disrespect, scorn, disdain

(adj) conclusive, final, representing the limit of what can be done

Syn: exhaustive, authoritative

Ant: tentative, inconclusive

(n) the way a person behaves, overall impressio made by comportment, manner, etc.; facial appearance, mien

Syn: conduct, behavior, bearing, carriage

(adj) puzzling, perplexing, inexplicable, not easily understood

Syn: baffling, mysterious, inexplicable

Ant: intelligible, understandable, fathomable

(adj, adv) without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily sone; (n) an extemporaneous compostion or remark; a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation

Syn: (adj) spontaneous, improvised, unrehearsed

Ant: (adj) rehearsed, planned, prepared, premeditated

(adj) excessively and objectionably sentimental; having a midly sickening flavor

Syn: sentimentalized, maudlin, mushy, nauseating

Ant: unsentimental, callous, insensitive

(v) to soften, make gentle, pacify; to calm, allay (as an emotion), assuage, appease, placate; to reduce in intensity

Ant: enrage, anger, aggravate, exacerbate

(n) something that is heavy or burdensome (especially an unwelcome responsibility); a stigma; blame

Syn: burden, obligation, duty, stigma

(n) a vague sence of approaching misfortune

Syn: foreboding, premonition, hunch

(adj) given over to dissipation and self-indulgence, immoral; recklessly extravagant; (n) a person given to self-indulgent and wild spending

Syn: (adj) prodigal, improvident; (n) spendthrift

Ant: (adj) penny-pitching, frugal, economical

(v) to send or hand in (as money); to cancel (as a penalty or punishment), forgive, pardon; to lesen, diminish; to put off, postpone, defer

Syn: pay, absolve, subside, abate

(adj) needed, necessary, regarded as essential or indispensable

Syn: required, obligatory, incumbent

Ant: nonessential, superflous, optional

(v) to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate

Syn: foil, baffle

Ant: aid, assist, abet, further