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- earthy
- realistic, coarse
- ebullient
- enthusiastic
- echelon
- rank of authority
- eclat
- brilliance, fame
- edify
- to improve someone morally, to instruct
- educe
- to draw or bring out
- effeminate
- unmanly
- effete
- worn-out, barren
- efficacy
- power to produce an effect
- effigy
- a likeness or image
- effluent
- flowing out
- effrontery
- shameful boldness
- effulgent
- shining forth brillantly, radiant
- effusion
- a pouring out, an uncontrolled display of emotion (effusive)
- egalitarian
- pertaining to belief in equality of all men
- egregious
- remarkably bad, outrageous
- egress
- exit
- elegy
- a sad or mournful person
- elicit
- to draw forth, to cause to be revealed
- ellipsis
- the omission in a sentence of a word or words
- elucidate
- to make clear
- elysian
- blissful heavenly
- emanate
- to come forth, send out
- emendation
- correction
- eminent
- famous, renowned
- emollient
- something that soothes or softens
- emolument
- profit, gain
- empirical
- based on experience rather than theory
- emulous
- jealous, envious
- encomium
- an expression of high praise
- enervate
- to weaken
- enfranchise
- to give the right to vote
- engender
- to promote
- enmity
- hostility, hatred
- ennui
- boredom
- enormity
- an outrageous and immoral act
- ensconce
- to hide, conceal, settle comfortably
- environs
- surroundings
- envisage
- to imagine, to form a mental picture
- ephemeral
- temporary, short-lived
- epithet
- a descriptive word or phrase
- equanimity
- calmness, evenness of temperament
- equipoise
- balance
- equivocal
- doubtful, ambiguous
- equivocate
- to confuse by speaking in ambiguous terms
- eradicate
- to erase, wipe out
- errant
- wandering, straying from what is right
- ersatz
- artificial, inferior
- escarpment
- steep cliff
- eschew
- to avoid, keep away from
- esoteric
- for a select few, not generally known
- espouse
- to support
- ethereal
- spiritual, airy
- euphonious
- having a pleasant sound
- evanescent
- temporary, fleeting, ephemeral
- evasive
- not straightforward, tricky
- eventuate
- to result, to happen finally
- evince
- to show cleary
- exacerbate
- to aggravate, to make more violent
- excise
- a tax on liquor or to cut off or out
- excoriate
- to scrape the skin off, to criticize sharply
- exculpate
- to free from blame, to vindicate
- execrate
- to curse
- exhort
- to warn
- exhume
- to bring out of the earth, to reveal
- exigent
- urgent, critical
- exiguous
- scanty, small in quantity
- expatiate
- to enlarge upon, to speak or write at length
- expectorate
- to spit out
- expedient
- practical, advantageous
- explicate
- explain in detail, make clear
- expound
- to explain, interpret
- extant
- still in existence
- extemporaneous
- offhand, done without preparation
- extirpate
- to destroy, to remove completely
- extol
- to praise
- extort
- to obtain by force
- extradite
- to give up a prisoner to another authority
- extraneous
- unrelated, not essential
- extrapolate
- to estimate, to infer