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20 Cards in this Set
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delineate (v) |
To portray in words; describe or outline with precision.
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nefarious (adj) |
Extremely wicked or villainous. |
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vernacular (adj) |
Using plain, everyday, ordinary language.
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brawn (n) |
Muscular strength. |
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tout (v) |
To promote or praise energetically.
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enhance (v) |
To make greater, as in value, beauty, or effectiveness; augment. |
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hinder (v) |
To cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede. |
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efface (v) |
To rub out, erase, or obliterate. |
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glutton (n) |
A person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
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hiatus (n) |
A break, as in from work, or a vacation. |
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querulous (adj) |
Expressing a complaint or grievance; grumbling.
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engender (v) |
To produce, cause, or give rise to, create. |
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obliterate (v) |
To remove or destroy all traces of; do away with; destroy completely.
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copious (adj) |
Large in quantity or number; abundant; plentiful.
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obscure (v,adj) |
Not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive.
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extol (v) |
To praise highly; laud; eulogize. |
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pugnacious (adj) |
Inclined to quarrel or fight readily; quarrelsome; belligerent; combative.
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quell (v) |
To quiet or allay (emotions, anxieties, etc.) |
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artisan (n) |
One trained to manual dexterity in some mechanic art or trade; and handicraftsman; a mechanic.
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kindle (v) |
To start (a fire); cause (a flame, blaze, etc.) to begin burning.
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