American Classics Hinton Set # 5
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Efface | obliterate, remove completely from recognition or memory; make inconspicuous |
| Plagiarize | unauthorized use or close imitation of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work |
| Querulous | fretful; habitually complaining |
| Voracious | excessively greedy and grasping; insatiably hungry; exceedingly eager or avid |
| Reticent | reserved; disposed to be silent or not to speak freely; reluctant or restrained |
| Deference | courteous regard for people's feelings; a disposition or tendency to yield to others' will; respect |
| Euphemism | The substitution of a mild or less negative word or phrase for a harsh or blunt one |
| Guile | craftiness, shrewdness; insidious cunning in attaining a goal; skillful deceit |
| Savory | morally respectable or inoffensive; pleasant or agreeable in taste or smell; salty to the taste; not sweet |
| Jargon | slang; a characteristic language of a particular group; unintelligible or meaningless talk or writing; gibberish |
| Prodigious | colossal; so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe; of momentous or ominous significance |
| Surmise | infer from incomplete evidence; suspect: imagine to be the case or true or probable |
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