Kaplan's SAT Vocab (E)
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- effluvia
- n. waste; odorous fumes given off by waste
- elegy
- n. a mournful poem, usually about the dead
- elude
- v. to avoid cleverly, to escape the perception of
- emollient
- adj. soothing, especially to the skin
- emulate
- v. to strive to equal or excel, to imitate
- encumber
- v. to weigh down, to burden
- enjoin
- v. to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbid
- epochal
- adj. momentous, highly significant
- eponymous
- adj. giving one's name to a place, book, restaurant
- equivocate
- v. to avoid committing oneself in what one says, to be deliberately unclear
- ersatz
- adj. being an artificial and inferior substitute or imitation
- eschew
- v. to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)
- espouse
- v. to take up and support as a cause; to marry
- espy
- v. to catch sight of, glimpse
- euphemism
- n. an inoffensive and agreeable expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive
- euthanasia
- n. the practice of ending the life of hopelessly ill individuals; assisted suicide
- excoriate
- v. to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of
- exponent
- n. one who champions or advocates
- expound
- v. to explain or describe in detail
- expunge
- v. to erase, eliminate completely
- extirpate
- v. to root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively; to destroy wholly
- extrapolation
- n. the use of known data and information to determine what will happen in the future; prediction
- extrinsic
- adj. external, unessential; originating from the outside
- extrude
- v. to form or shape something by pushing it out, to force out, especially through a small opening