E words

Question 1

Ebullient***

Answer 1

(adj) exhilarated; enthusiastic

Question 2

Eclectic***

Answer 2

(adj) selecting from various sources

Question 3

Effete***

Answer 3

(adj) depleted of vitality; overrefined; decadent

Question 4

Efficacy***

Answer 4

(n) efficiency; effectiveness

Question 5

Effrontery***

Answer 5

(n) shameless boldness; presumptuousness

Question 6

Elegy***

Answer 6

(n) poem or song expressing lamentation

Question 7

Elicit***

Answer 7

(v) to provoke; draw out

Question 8

Embellish***

Answer 8

(v) to adorn; decorate; enhance; make more attractive by adding details

Question 9

Emollient

Answer 9

(adj) soothing; mollifying – “mol” like soft in PT

Question 10

Empirical***

Answer 10

(adj) derived from observation or experiment

Question 11

Emulate***

Answer 11

(v) to imitate; copy

Question 12

Encomium

Answer 12

(n) a formal expression of praise

Question 13

Endemic***

Answer 13

(adj) inherent; belonging to an area

Question 14

Enervate***

Answer 14

(v) to weaken

Question 15

Ephemeral***

Answer 15

(adj) short-lived; fleeting

Question 16

Equable

Answer 16

(adj) steady; unvarying; serene

Question 17

Equanimity***

Answer 17

(n) composure; calmness

Question 18

Equivocate***

Answer 18

(v) to intentionally use vague langugage

Question 19

Erudite***

Answer 19

(adj) learned; scholarly

Question 20

Esoteric***

Answer 20

(adj) hard to understand; known only to a few

Question 21

Estimable

Answer 21

(adj) admirable; possible to estimate

Question 22

Etiology

Answer 22

(n) causes or origins

Question 23

Etymology

Answer 23

(n) origin and history of a word

Question 24

Euphemism***

Answer 24

(n) use of agreeable or inoffensive language in place of unpleasant or offensive language

Question 25

Evince

Answer 25

(v) to show plainly; to be an indication of

Question 26

Evocative

Answer 26

(adj) tending to call to mind or produce a reaction

Question 27

Exacerbate***

Answer 27

(v) to aggravate; make worse

Question 28

Exact

Answer 28

(v) to force the payment of; demand and obtain by authority

Question 29

Exculpate***

Answer 29

(v) to clear of blame; vindicate

Question 30

Execrable***

Answer 30

(adj) detestable; abhorrent -- "ex-eh-cra-ble"

Question 31

Exigency***

Answer 31

(n) crisis; urgent requirements

Question 32

Existential***

Answer 32

(adj) having to do with existence; based on experience; having to do with the philosophy of existentialism

Question 33

Expatiate

Answer 33

(v) to speak or write at length

Question 34

Expatriate

Answer 34

(v) to send into exile -- "ek-SPAY-tree-ayt" ;; person living outside their own land -- "ek-SPAY-tree-it"

Question 35

Expiate

Answer 35

(v) to atone for

Question 36

Expository

Answer 36

(adj) explanatory

Question 37

Extant***

Answer 37

(adj) in existence; not lost

Question 38

Extirpate

Answer 38

(v) to root up; to destroy

Question 39

Extraneous***

Answer 39

(adj) not essential

Question 40

Extrapolation***

Answer 40

(n) the act of estimation by projecting known information