E Flashcards
Eclectic
Ee CLEC tic
Having very varying tastes.
Having French, modern, and stone furniture.
Ebullient
Ee BULL yent
Crazy joy. IM SO HAPPY IM GONNA DIE!!!
Efface
Eh FACE
V
To erase
Effervescent
Bubbly
Of personality or liquid
Effulgent
A
Radiating light
Emphatic
Emphatic means forceful and clear. Nicole’s mother was emphatic when she told her not to come home late again.
Empirical
Drawn from experiment, not theory
Encumber
V
To weigh down, physically or emotionally
Endemic
Extremely prevalent in a specific area
Disease in Africa or saggy pants in lunchroom
Enmity
Feeling of hostility toward some thing else
Ennui
Ahn WEE
N
Being bored by something tedious.
Entreat
V
To beseech
Enumerate
V
To enumerate is to list or count off one by one.
Ephemeral
PHEM
Something that is fleeting or short-lived is ephemeral, like a fly that lives for one day or text messages flitting from cellphone to cellphone.
Equivocate
When you are unwilling to make a decision and almost intentionally go back and forth between two choices, you are equivocating.
Erudite
Yoo
Show great learning
Eschew
CHOO
If you eschew something, you deliberately avoid it.
Esoteric
TER
Secret, arcane. Relating to the enlightened inner circle
Evanescent
A beautiful sunset, a rainbow, a wonderful dream right before your alarm clock goes off — all of these could be described as evanescent, which means “fleeting” or “temporary.”
Evince
The verb evince means to show or express clearly; to make plain. Evidence can evince the innocence of the accused, and tears can evince the grief of the mourning.
Exacerbate
Ah
For a formal-sounding verb that means to make worse, try exacerbate. If you’re in trouble, complaining about it will only exacerbate the problem.
Excoriate
If you excoriate someone, you let that person know that you really, really disagree with them. This verb goes beyond mere criticism
Expulpate
Acquit, exonerate
Execrate
V
HATE!!!!!
And to curse, or declare evil