| Term | Definition |
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| enervate | to weaken of destroy the mental & physical strength or vitality of |
| enfranchise | to grant a franchise to;to admit citizenship (especially right to vote);to endow an area with parliamentary rights;to set free; liberate (for example from slavery) |
| epiphany | a sudden intuitive insight into the reality of something (often commonplace);a literary work of section of one that presents a moment of revelation (usually symbolically) |
| Epiphany | a Christian festival celebrating the 12th day after Christmas; arrival of the 3 wisemen |
| evanescent | vanishing; fading away; fleeting;scarcely perceptible;soon forgotten |
| expurgate | to amend by removing words deemed offensive / objectionable;to cleanse of moral offensiveness |
| expiate | to atone or make amends for, show remorse |
| equivocate | to use ambiguous of unclear expressions so to avoid commitment or to mislead |
| erudite | characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly |
| ersatz | serving as a substitute;synthetic / artificial;a usually inferior artificial substance to replace genuine substance |
| eruct | to belch forth gas from stomach;to emit violently (as from a volcano eruption) |
| epigrammatic | like an epigram or containing epigrams |
| epigram | any witty, ingenious, or pointed statement;a short satirical poem with one subject |
| efficacy | capacity for producing a desired result; effectiveness |
| ecdysiast | stripper; striptease artist |
| ecdysis | the quality to shed skin |
| excoriate | to denounce or berate severely;to strip or remove the skin from |
| excogitate | to think out,devise, invent;to study intently & carefully in order to grasp or comprehend fully |
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