| Term | Definition |
|---|
| elegy | poem or song in lamentation |
| elicit | 誘出 yau chut |
| embellish | enhance |
| empirical | based on experience |
| emulate | imitate |
| endemic | prevailing among a group of people in an area |
| enervate | weaken |
| engender | 引起 yan hei |
| ephemeral | short-lived |
| equanimity | calmness of temperment |
| equivocate | lie |
| erudite | learned; scholarly |
| esoteric | hard to understand |
| eulogy | expression of praise; funeral |
| euphemism | mild expression rather than unplesant one |
| exacerbate | worsen |
| exculpate | clear from blame |
| exigency | urgent situation |
| extrapolation | projection |
| facetious | joking |
| fallacious | false; misleading |
| fatuous | brainless |
| fawning | trying to please by flattery |
| felicitous | apt, good at what to say |
| fervor | intensity of feeling |
| flag | droop; grow feeble |
| flout | reject |
| forestall | prevent taking action in advance |
| foment | stir up |
| gainsay | deny |
| garrulous | wordy |
| goad | urge on |
| grandiloquent | using high sounding language |
| gregarious | sociable |
| gouge | overcharge |
| guileless | without deceit |
| harangue | long speech |
| iconoclastic | attacking cherished traditions |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| impair | hurt |
| impassive | without feeling |
| imperturbable | calm |
| implacable | not capable of being pacified |
| implode | burst inward |
| inchoate | recently begun |
| incongruity | lack of harmony; absurdity |
| indigence | poverty |
| indolent | lazy |
| inert | inactive |
| ingenuous | `naive and trusting |
| inherent | firmly est. by nature or habit |
| insensible | unconscious |
| insipid | lack flavor; dull |
| insularity | narrow-minded; isolation |
| intractable | unruly; stubborn |
| intransigence | refusal of any compromise |
| inundate | overwhelm |
| inured | accustomed |
| invective | abuse |
| irascile | irritable |
| irresolute | uncertain how to act; weak |
| laconic | brief and to the point |
| lassitude | weariness; languor |
| latent | potential but undevloped |
| laud | praise |
| levity | lack of seriousness |
| loquacious | talkative |
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