Expository Writing Vocabulary Test

• Delineate - to trace the outline of
• Nefarious - extremely wicked
• Vernacular - native to a place
• Brawn - strong, well-developed muscles
• Tout - to persistently solicit business, employment, vote or the like
• Enhance - to raise to a higher degree
• Hindrance - an impeding, stopping, preventing, or the like
• Efface - to wipe out; do away with
• Glutton - a person who easts and drinks excessively
• Hiatus - a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc.