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Week 5. Tout - verb to publicly brag touter – noun Example: The football team touted after winning the championship game. enhance - verb. intensify; improve enhancement & enhancer – noun enhancive – adjective Example: Some people say makeup enhances your beauty. hinder - verb.
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Week 5 Tout - verb to publicly brag touter – noun Example: The football team touted after winning the championship game.
enhance - verb intensify; improve enhancement & enhancer – noun enhancive – adjective Example: Some people say makeup enhances your beauty.
hinder - verb To delay action or progress hindrance – noun Example: Road construction can hinder people’s ability to get to work on time.
efface - verb To erase; to rub out I effaced the stray pencil marks on my MAP test. effaceable – adjective effacement & effacer - noun
onomatopoeia - noun A word that sounds like the sound it makes. BOOM, POW, BUZZ, POP
Affixes Prefix: un Meaning: not Examples: uninterested, unfair, uninhabitable Suffix: -ism Meaning: a doctrine, system, theory, or practice; changes a word into a noun; can also change nouns to verbs Examples: plagiarism, Catholicism, baptism