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20 Cards in this Set

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Delineate (v)
To portray in words; describe or outline with precision.
Nefarious (adj)
Extremely wicked or villainous.
Vernacular (adj)
Using plain, everyday, ordinary language.
Brawn (n)
Muscular strength.
Tout (v)
To promote or praise energetically.
Enhance (v)
To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment.
Hinder (v)
To cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede.
Efface (v)
To rub out, erase, or obliterate.
Glutton (n)
A person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
Hiatus (n)
A break, as in from work, or a vacation.
Querulous (adj)
Expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling.
Engender (v)
To produce, cause, or give rise to, create.
Obliterate (v)
To remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
Copious (adj)
Large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful.
Obscure (v,adj)
Not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive.
Extol (v)
To praise highly; laud; eulogize.
Pugnacious (adj)
Inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
Quell (v)
To quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.)
Artisan (n)
One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
Kindle (v)
To start (a fire); cause (a flame, blaze, etc.) to begin burning.