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