| Term | Definition |
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| Emulate | To strive to equal or excel especially through imitation: an older pupil whose accomplishments and style I emulate. To compete with successfully; rival. |
| Enamored | to inspire with love; captivate: was enamored of the beautiful dancer; were enamored with the charming island. |
| Enhance | To make greater as in value, beauty, reputation; augment: “She had a sweetness to her face, a warmth that was enhanced by luminous dark eyes.” |
| Enigma | One that is puzzling, ambiguous, or inexplicable. A perplexing speech or text, a riddle. |
| Enraptured | To fill with rapture or delight; entrance, ravish, thrill, transport. |
| Enunciate | to pronounce; articulate. To state or set forth precisely or systematically: enunciate a doctrine. To announce; proclaim. |
| Erudite | Characterized by erudition; learned, scholarly. |
| Ethnic | Of or relating to sizable groups of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage. Being a member of a particular ethnic group. Relating to a people not Christian or Jewish; heathen. |
| Evince | To show or demonstrate clearly; manifest: evince distaste by grimacing. |
| Evoke | To summon or call forth: actions that evoke our mistrust. To call to mind by naming, citing, or suggesting: songs that evoke old memories. To create anew, especially by means of imagination; a novel that evokes the Depression in accurate detail. (evoke,educe,elicit.) |
| Exhort | To urge by strong, often stirring argument; admonition, advice, or appeal: exhorted the troops to hold the line. |
| Exodus | A departure of a large number of people: the fire alarm started a hurried exodus from the concert. The departure from the Israelites from Egypt. |
| Expatriate | To send to exile, banish. To give up one’s home land. |
| Expedient | Appropriate to a purpose: an expedient course of action. Something contrived or used to meet an urgent need. |
| Explicit | Fully and clearly expressed; leaving nothing implied. Clearly expressed. |
| Expound | To give a detailed statement of, set forth: expounded the intricacies of the new tax law. To explain in detail; elucidate: The speaker expounded the approach of positive thinking, explain. |
| Expunge | To erase or strike out: “I have corrected some factual slips, expunged some repetitions.” To eliminate completely; annihilate, erase. |
| Extol | To praise highly; exalt: At every opportunity, the teacher would extol the virtues of virtue, praise. |
| Extradite | To give up or deliver to the legal jurisdiction of another government or authority: extradite from France back to the United States. To obtain the extradition of, banish. |
| Extraneous | Not constituting a vital element or part. Inessential or unrelated to the topic or matter at hand; irrelevant. |
| Extrovert | An individual interested in others or in the environment as opposed to or the exclusion of self: She was too much an extrovert ever to be happy living alone; she truly needed her friends…and an audience. |
| Exult | To rejoice greatly; be jubilant or triumphant: she exulted in the success of her children. |
| Fallacy | A false notion: the flat-earth Fallacy. A False statement, belief, consperiousy. |
| Feasible- | Capable of being accomplished or brought about; possible: a feasible plan. |
| Fiasco | A complete failure: What had begun with great promise ended, sadly, in a complete fiasco. |
| Fickle | Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachment: capricious: She was fickle with her affections: each week she had a new boyfriend. |
| Fluctuate | To vary irregularly: The stock market fluctuated. |
| Formidable | Arousing fear, dread, or alarm: the formidable prospect of major surgery. |
| Frowzy | Unkempt; slovenly: frowzy clothes. |
| Frugal | Practicing or marked by economy, as in the expenditure of money or the use of material resources: The outfitter was a frugal spender, purchasing only what was absolutely necessary for the expedition. Costing little: a frugal lunch |
| Frustrate | To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: A persistent wind frustrated my attempt to rake the lawn. To cause feeling of discouragement or bafflement in. |
| Furtive | Characterized by stealth; surreptitious: to steal a furtive glance at her secret lover. Expressive of hidden motives or purposes: shifty. |
| Gadfly | A persistent, irritating critic; a nuisance: He was booth a gadfly and a bore… Still, because he was famous he was indulged. |
| Galvanize | To stimulate or Shock with an electric current. |
| Gamut | A complete range or extent: a face that expressed a gamut of emotions, from rage to peaceful contentment. |
| Gargantuan | Of immense size, volume, or capacity; gigantic. (Enormous) |
| Gauche | Lacking social polish; tactless. (Awkward) |
| Genial | having a pleasant or friendly disposition or manner; cordial and kindly. (Gracious) |
| Grandiloquent | Pompous or bombastic speech or expression: His political persona was simply too grandiloquent for democratic tastes; skilled as he otherwise was, he could never be elected. |
| Gregarious | Seeking and enjoying the company of others; sociable. |
| Grimace | A sharp contortion of the face expressive of pain, contempt, or disgust: his grimace belied his words that “It didn’t really hurt” |
| Harangue | A long pompous speech, especially one delivered before gathering: The senator’s harangue went on and on. |
| Harry | To disturb or distress by or as if repeated attacks; harass. |
| Hearth | The floor of a fireplace, usually extending into a room and paved with brick, flagstone, or cement. |
| Heinous | Grossly wicked or reprehensible; abominable: a heinous crime. |
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