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Episodic

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Loosely connected, not flowing logically

Lyme’s disease is an episodic illness; symptoms can disappear for years, only to recur later

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Epithet

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Nickname

Or to express abuse or hostility

Word spread quickly about the racial epithets spray painted on the courthouse walls.

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Epitome

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A typical example of a character or class

A long afternoon by the pool with a good book and a frosty beverage is the epitome of relaxation.

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Equanimity

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Composure, self possession

Liam strove unsuccessfully for equanimity in the face of the massive and unprovoked tickle attack.

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Errant

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Deviating from the norm

The nose, as anyone who has received a stinger from an errant baseball, has many pain fibers.

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Erratic

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Without consistency

The erratic shooting of Andrew Wiggins is hard to swallow.

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Erudite

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Very learned, scholarly

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Eschew

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To shun or avoid

Some vegans eschew all forms of animal products, including avoiding leather.

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Esoteric

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Intended for or understood by a small, specific group

Even though most of the sects practices were well understood, some of the most esoteric rites have never been seen by outsiders.

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Essay

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When used as of verb meaning to try or to test

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Estimable

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Worthy of esteem, deserving respect

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Eulogy

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Speech honoring the dead.

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Evanescent

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Tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing

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Evince

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Show clearly, indicate

Brenda evinced great heroism during the fire, reentering the house to pull a child out.

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

Don’t exacerbate the situation!

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Exact

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Verb: to demand, require

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Exculpate

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To clear of blame

I was able to exculpate myself from the charges of cheating by taking another exam and receiving the same grade on the second test.

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Exemplar

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Typical or standard specimen

Joe W. was excited to find the perfect exemplar of the species of fern.

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Exhort

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To make urgent appeals

Our coach exhorted us to greater and greater efforts, urging us not to give up even with a ten point deficit.

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Exigent

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Urgent, requiring immediate action or attention

Not everything in the ER is exergent, even though they make it seem like it.

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Exonerate

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To remove blame.

With the improvement of DNA technology many death row inmates have been exonerated

Exculpate means the same thing.

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Expatiate

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Discuss or write about at length

My grandparents expatiated on there summer cruise to Alaska for three hours.

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Expiate

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To make amends

To expiate for breaking his neighbors window, John shoveled snow for three months.

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Expurgate

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To remove obscenity, purify,
To purge offensiveness

The newspaper had to expurgate the expletive filled speech that Kevin Garnett used after losing the basketball game.

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Extant

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Existing, not destroyed or lost

There are 48 copies of the Gutenberg bible extant today

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised

The extemporaneous jokes that they made at improv had me belly laughing.

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Extirpate

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Destroy, pull out by the roots

The dodo bird was extirpated by a hunting.

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Facetious

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Playful, not serious

Mark L can be facetious at all the wrong times.

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Fallacy

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Invalid notation, a mistaken belief

Penny refused to listen to people talking of the Easter bunny as fallacy, every spring she went looking for a pink rabbit and chocolate eggs.

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Fallow

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Untilled, inactive, dormant

The farmer hoped by leaving the field fallow for a year that the following year would be a bumper crop.

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Fanatical

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Zealous, obsessed,

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Fastidious

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Excessively particularl, hard to please

Duff was a nice man but his fastidious nature made him difficult to work for.

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Fawn

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Used as a verb to flatter or praise excessively

Hector used to think it would be great to be a star and have grupies fawning over him; he changed his mind after fans tore his clothes off.

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Feckless

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Irresponsible

My feckless brother managed to get himself grounded again.

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Felicitous

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Well chosen, delightful

My dad can always be counted on for the most felicitous remarks; he has something no appropriate for every occasion

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Fervor

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Passion or intense emotion.

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Fervent

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Greatly emotional or zealous

Her fervent support of environmental protection led her to write over a thousand letters to congress.

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Fetid

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Stinking, having a very bad smell

The fetid feet of the patient was not a good sign.

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Fetter

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Shackles or chains

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Fickle

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Likeliness to casually change ones mind

Because of his fickle heart he never stayed in any one relationship for too long.

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Filibuster

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Intentional obstruction, often used in congress

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Flag

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As a verb meaning to sag or droop, to become spiritless

The fans spirits flagged when the opposing team scored the go ahead goal with 5 seconds left.

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Flip

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Sarcastic, impertinent

His flip remarks were intended to keep anyone from realizing how much he really cared.

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Florid

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Flushed with color,

Glen always became a little florid when he drank; his face became bright red.

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Flout

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Openly disregard

Gertrude’s reputation for flouting the rules was so well known that she was no longer able to get away with anything at all.

46
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Foment

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To stir up, rouse

Despite popular beliefs, the police are here to keep people calm, not to foment violence.

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Forbearance

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Patience, willingness to wait

Lacy hoped her prefers sorts reputation for forbearance was well founded and that she would get an extension on her paper.

Forbearance can also be used in banking…your loans are in forbearance.

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Ford

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To wade across the shallow river.

In Oregon trail I always chose to ford the river.

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Forstall

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To act in a way to hinder

The famous actor was trying to forestall aging by undergoing anything that claimed would help.

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Forswear

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To renounce, disallow

Forswearing all previous alliances, the paranoid dictator vowed to allow on one to share his power.

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Fortuitous

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Happening by fortunate accident

How fortuitous that I ran into you today; your just the person I was hoping to see.

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Fracas

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Noisy fight or quarrel

Every good hockey game needs a fracas now an again.

53
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Fractious

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Quarrelsome, rebellious

Congress is finding the new president to be fractious, every appointment to the government is a hard fight.

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Frugal

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Prudent in saving, not waist full

Pea pole who grew up during the great depression are some of the most frugal I know.

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Furtive

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Marked by stealth; covert

Greg walked outside Ina furtive manner so that her parents would not see her sneak out.

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Gainsay

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Deny, dispute, contradict

It is difficult to gain say the critics when every new movie the director made was a flop.

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Galvanize

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To stratal into sudden action, stimulate

Her powerful speeches galvanized people into action

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Gambol

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To skip about playfully, frolic

Each spring, the students gamboled on the Mall as the temperatures increased.

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