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- ebullient: high-spirited.
- ebullient: joyously unrestrained.
- edacious: given to eating.
- edify: to instruct and improve.
- efface: to cause to disappear by rubbing out, striking out, etc.
- effete: infertile; also, worn out; also, decadent; effeminate.
- efficacious: producing, or capable of producing, a desired effect.
- effrontery: shameless boldness; insolence.
- effulgence: the state of being bright and radiant.
- effusive: excessively demonstrative.
- egregious: outrageously bad.
- egress: the act of going out or leaving; exit.
- eke: to increase; to add to.
- eldritch: unearthly; weird; eerie.
- eldritch: unearthly; weird; eerie.
- eleemosynary: relating to charity; charitable.
- elucidate: to make clear or manifest
- Elysium: paradise.
- emblazon: to display pompously; to decorate.
- embonpoint: plumpness of person.
- emolument: profit, gain.
- emolument: the wages or perquisites arising from office, employment, or labor.
- empyrean: the highest heaven; the heavens; the sky.
- en masse: all together; as a whole.
- encomium: expression of praise.
- encomium: high praise.
- encumbrance: a burden, impediment, or hindrance.
- enervate: to weaken
- enjoin: to direct or impose with authority; also, to forbid.
- enmity: hatred; ill will.
- ennui: a feeling of weariness and dissatisfaction arising from lack of interest.
- entreat: to ask for or request earnestly.
- enunciate: to utter articulately; also, to state or set forth precisely or systematically.
- ephemeral: short-lived.
- ephemeron: something short-lived.
- epicene: having the characteristics of both the male and the female.
- epigone: an inferior imitator.
- equable: equal and uniform; also, not easily disturbed.
- equanimity: calmness; composure.
- equipoise: equilibrium; also, counterbalance.
- equivocate: to be deliberately ambiguous or unclear. kismet: destiny; fate.
- eremite: a hermit.
- ergo: therefore; consequently.
- errant: wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
- erroneous: containing or characterized by error.
- ersatz: being a substitute or imitation.
- erudite: characterized by extensive reading or knowledge.
- eschew: to shun; to avoid.
- espy: to see at a glance.
- esurient: hungry; greedy.
- etiolate: to blanch or bleach; to make sickly.
- euphonious: pleasing or sweet in sound.
- evanescent: fleeting.
- evanescent: fleeting. extricate: to free or release from a difficulty or entanglement.
- evince: to show in a clear manner.
- exacerbate: to aggravate; to make worse.
- exalt: to praise, glorify, or honor.
- excoriate: to censure scathingly; also, to flay.
- excoriate: to express strong disapproval of; also, to flay.
- excrescence: something growing out from something else; also, a disfiguring or unwanted part.
- exculpate: to clear from alleged fault or guilt.
- exculpate: to relieve of blame.
- excursus: a digression.
- execrable: detestable; extremely bad.
- exegesis: exposition; explanation.
- exegete: a person who explains or interprets difficult parts of written works.
- exemplar: a model or pattern to be copied or imitated; a specimen; an ideal model or type.
- exemplar: an ideal model or type.
- exhort: to urge strongly.
- exigency: state of requiring immediate action; also, an urgent situation; also, that which is required in a particular situation.
- exigent: requiring immediate aid or action; also, demanding.
- exiguity: smallness; thinness; the quality of being meager.
- exiguous: extremely scanty
- xpatiate: to speak or write at length.
- expeditious: characterized by speed and efficiency.
- expiate: to make amends for; to atone for.
- explicate: to explain.
- explicate: to explain. hypnagogic: leading to sleep; hypnotic.
- expropriate: to deprive of possession; also, to transfer (another’s property) to oneself.
- expunge: to blot out; to obliterate.
- expunge: to strike out or erase; to obliterate.
- extant: still in existence.
- extemporaneous: composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment.
- extempore: without preparation; on the spur of the moment.
- extirpate: to eradicate; to destroy.
- extirpate: to root out; to eradicate
- extol: to praise.
- extraneous: coming from the outside; also, not essential; also, irrelevant.
- extricate: to free or release from a difficulty or entanglement.
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