| Term | Definition |
|---|
| encomium | praise |
| engender | to cause |
| enhance | to increase |
| enigma | puzzle |
| enjoin | to prohibit |
| ephemeral | short-lived |
| epicure | lover of good living |
| epitaph | writing on a tombstone |
| epitome | abstract; summary; embodiment |
| equable | calm; uniform |
| equitable | just, fair |
| equivocal | uncertain, obscure |
| erotic | relating to or dealing w/ sexual love |
| erratic | wandering |
| erudite | a learned person; scholarly |
| esoteric | relating to knowledge |
| ethical | accepted standards of conduct |
| eulogy | high praise of a person or thing |
| exacerbate | to make more violent, bitter, or severe |
| excise | to remove by cutting out |
| exculpate | to clear from blame; vindicate |
| execration | to denounce; curse |
| exigency | urgency |
| exonerate | to free from blame; acquit, absolve |
| exotic | strikingly different |
| expatiate | to wander |
| expectorate | to spit |
| expedient | advisable under the circumstances |
| expiate | to atone for |
| expound | interpret; to explain in detail |
| expunge | obliterate, erase |
| extant | still existing, not destroyed or left |
| extol | to praise highly ; glorify |
| extradite | to surrender a prisoner to another authority |
| extraneous | not belonging; irrelevant |
| extricate | to free |
| extrinsic | not an essential part |
| fabricate | invent; to make up for the sake of deception |
| facade | the front of a building; a false artificial appearance |
| facetious | joking often inappropriately |
| facile | easily accomplish, handled or attained |
| factitious | artificial |
| fastidious | overly difficult to please |
| fatuous | foolish |
| feasible | capable of being done or carried out; possible |
| fecund | fruitful; fertile |
| felicity | great happiness |
| ferret | to drive out of a hiding place |
| fervent | very hot; glowing |
| fetish | an object believed to have magical powers |
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