| Term | Definition |
|---|
| abash | To make ashamed; to embarrass |
| abate | To subside; to reduce |
| abdicate | To step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| aberration | Something not typical; a deviation from the standard |
| abhor | To hate very very much; to detest |
| abject | Hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated; utterly bummed out |
| abnegate | To deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce |
| abortive | Unsuccessful |
| abridge | To shorten; to condense |
| absolute | Total; unlimited; perfect |
| absolve | To forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation |
| abstinent | Abstaining; voluntarily not doing something especially something pleasant that is bad for you or has a bad reputation |
| abstract | Theoretical; impersonal |
| abstruse | Hard to understand |
| abysmal | Extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless |
| accolade | An award; an honor |
| accost | To approach and speak to someone |
| acerbic | Bitter; sour; severe |
| acquiesce | To comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
| acrid | Harsh; like acid |
| acrimonious | Full of spite; bitter; nasty |
| acumen | Keenness of judgment; mental sharpness |
| acute | Sharp; shrewd |
| adamant | Stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible |
| address | To speak to; to direct ones attention to |
| adherent | Follower; supporter; believer |
| admonish | To scold gently; to warn |
| adroit | Skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| adulation | Wild or excessive admiration; flattery |
| adulterate | To contaminate; to make impure |
| adverse | Unfavorable; antagonistic |
| aesthetic | Having to do with artistic beauty; artistic |
| affable | Easy to talk to; friendly |
| affectation | Unnatural or artificial behavior usually intended to impress |
| affinity | Sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity |
| affluent | Rich; prosperous |
| agenda | Program; the things to be done |
| agrarian | Relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land |
| aggregate | Sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together |
| agnostic | One who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven |
| alacrity | Cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
| allege | To assert without proof |
| alleviate | To relieve usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen |
| allocate | To distribute; to assign; to allot |
| alloy | A combination of two or more things usually metals |
| allusion | An indirect reference often to a literary work; a hint hint |
| aloof | Uninvolved; standing off; keeping ones distance |
| altruism | Selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others |
| ambiance | Atmosphere; mood; feeling mood |
| ambiguous | Unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
| ambivalent | Undecided; neutral; wishy-washy |
| ameliorate | To make better or more tolerable ; |
| amenable | Obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amenity | Pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature |
| amiable | Friendly; agreeable |
| amnesty | An official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| amoral | Lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings |
| amorous | Feeling loving especially in a sexual sense; in love relating to love |
| amorphous | Shapeless; without a regular or stable shape |
| anachronism | Something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
| analogy | A comparison of one thing to another; similarity similarity |
| anarchy | Absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
| anecdote | A short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
| anguish | Agonizing physical or mental pain |
| animosity | Resentment; hostility; ill will |
| anomaly | An aberration; an irregularity; a deviation ; |
| antecedent | Someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it |
| antipathy | Firm dislike; a dislike ↔sympathy ; |
| antithesis | The direct opposite |
| apartheid | The abhorrent policy of racial segregation and oppression in the Repubic of South Africa |
| apathy | Lack of interest; lack of feeling |
| aphorism | A brief often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | A prophetic revelation especially one concerning the end of the world |
| apocryphal | Of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurious |
| apotheosis | Elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something |
| appease | To soothe; to pacify by giving in to |
| appreciate | To increase in value |
| apprehensive | Worried; anxious |
| approbation | Approval; praise |
| appropriate | To take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
| aptitude | Capacity for learning; natural ability |
| arbiter | One who decides; a judge |
| arbitrary | Random; capricious random |
| arcane | Mysterious; known only to a select few mysterious |
| archaic | Extremely old; ancient; outdated |
| archetype | An original model or pattern |
| ardent | Passionate half-hearted |
| arduous | Hard; difficult |
| aristocratic | Of noble birth; snobbish |
| artful | Wily; sly ; =crafty |
| artifice | A clever trick; cunning ; |
| ascendancy | Supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | Hermit like; practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | Hardworking; busy; quite diligent |
| assimilate | To take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
| assuage | To soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | Shrewd; keen in judgment ; |
| attrition | Gradual wearing away weakening or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers of size |
| audacity | Boldness; reckless daring; impertinence ; |
| augment | To make bigger; to add to; to increase ; |
| auspicious | Favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austere | Unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
| autocratic | Ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| autonomous | Acting independently |
| avarice | Greed; excessive love of riches |
| avow | To claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
| avuncular | Like an uncle especially a nice uncle ; |
| awry | Off course; twisted to one side ; |
| axiom | Self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
| banal | Unoriginal; ordinary |
| bane | Poison; torment; cause of harm |
| bastion | Stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
| beget | To give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
| belabor | To go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| beleaguer | To surround; to besiege; to harass |
| belie | To give a false impression of; to contradict |
| belittle | To make to seem little; to put someone down |
| belligerent | Combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
| bemused | Confused; bewildered |
| benefactor | One who provides help especially in the form of a gift or donation |
| benevolent | Generous; kind; doing good deeds |
| benign | Gentle; not harmful; kind; mild |
| bequest | Something left to someone in a will |
| bereaved | Deprived or left desolate especially through death |
| beset | Harass; to surround |
| blasphemy | Irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
| blatant | Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
| blight | Disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
| blithe | Carefree; cheerful |
| bourgeois | Middle class usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| bovine | Cow related; cow like cf canine equine feline pis cine porcine ursine |
| brevity | Briefness |
| broach | To open up a subject for discussion often a delicate subject |
| bucolic | Charmingly rural; rustic; country like |
| bureaucracy | A system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency lots of rules and red tape |
| burgeon | To expand; to flourish |
| burlesque | A ludicrous mocking or exaggerated imitation |
| cacophony | Harsh-sounding mixture of words voices or sounds |
| cadence | Rhythm the rise and fall of sounds |
| cajole | To persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
| callow | Immature |
| candor | Truthfulness; sincere honesty |
| Capitalism | Free enterprise |
| capitulate | To surrender; to give up or give in |
| capricious | Unpredictable; like to change at any moment |
| caricature | A portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated often to prove some point about its subject |
| castigate | To criticize severely; to chastise |
| catalyst | In chemistry~; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
| categorical | Unconditional; absolute |
| catharsis | Purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| catholic | Universal; embracing everything |
| caustic | Like acid; corrosive |
| celibacy | Abstinence from sex |
| censure | To condemn severely for doing something bad |
| cerebral | Brainy; intellectually refined |
| chagrin | Humiliation; embarrassed disappointment |
| charisma | A magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
| charlatan | Fraud; quack; con man |
| chasm | A deep gaping hole; a gorge |
| chastise | To inflict punishment on; to discipline |
| chicanery | Trickery; deceitfulness; artifice; especially legal or political |
| chimera | An illusion; a foolish fancy |
| choleric | Hot-tempered; quick to anger |
| chronic | Constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
| chronicle | A record of events in order of time; a history |
| circuitous | Round about; not following a direct path |
| circumlocution | An indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive language |
| circumscribe | To draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restrict. |
| circumspect | Cautious |
| circumvent | To frustrate as though by surrounding |
| civil | Polite; civilized; courteous |
| clemency | Mercy; forgiveness; mildness |
| cliche | An overused saying or idea |
| clique | An exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest |
| coalesce | To come together as one; to fuse; to unite ; |
| coerce | To force someone to do or not to do something |
| cogent | Powerfully convincing |
| cognitive | Dealing with how we know the world around us through our senses; mental |
| cognizant | Aware; conscious |
| coherent | Holding together; making sense |
| colloquial | Conversational; informal in language |
| collusion | Conspiracy; secret cooperation |
| commensurate | Equal; proportionate |
| compelling | Forceful; causing to yield |
| compendium | A summary; an abridgment |
| complacent | Self-satisfied; overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault |
| complement | To complete or fill up; to be the perfect counterpart |
| complicity | Participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice |
| comprehensive | Covering or including everything |
| comprise | To consist of; to be composed of cf constitute compose |
| conciliatory | Making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill |
| concise | Brief and to the point; succinct |
| concord | Harmony; agreement |
| concurrent | Happening at the same time; parallel |
| condescend | To stoop to someone else level usually in an offensive way; to patronize |
| condone | To overlook; to permit to happen |
| conducive | Promoting |
| confluence | A flowing together especially of rivers; place where they begin to flow together |
| congenial | Agreeably suitable; pleasant |
| congenital | A trait or condition acquired between conception and birth; innate |
| conjecture | To guess; to deduce or infer on slight evidence |
| conjure | To summon or bring into being as if by magic |
| connoisseur | An expert particularly in matter of art or taste |
| consecrate | To make or declare sacred |
| consensus | Unanimity or general agreement |
| consonant | Harmonious; in agreement |
| construe | To interpret |
| consummate | Perfect; complete; supremely skillful |
| contentious | Argumentative; quarrelsome |
| contiguous | Side by side; adjoining |
| contingent | Dependent; possible |
| contrite | Admitting guilt; especially feeling remorseful |
| contrived | Artificial; labored |
| conventional | common; customary; unexceptional |
| convivial | Fond of partying; festive |
| copious | Abundant; plentiful |
| corollary | something that follows; a natural consequence |
| corroborate | to confirm; to back up with evidence |
| cosmopolitan | at home in many places or situations; internationally sophisticated |
| countenance | face; facial expression especially an encouraging one |
| coup | a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group ; |
| covenant | a solemn agreement; a contract; a pledge |
| covert | secret; hidden |
| covet | to wish for enviously |
| credulous | eager to believe; gullible |
| criterion | standard; basis for judgment |
| cryptic | mysterious; mystifying; clandestine mysterious; |
| culinary | relating to cooking or the kitchen |
| culminate | to climax; to reach full effect |
| culpable | deserving blame; guilty |
| cursory | hasty; superficial |
| curtail | to shorten; to cut short ... |
| cynic | one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness |
| daunt | to make fearful; to intimidate |
| dearth | lack; scarcity |
| debacle | violent breakdown; sudden overthrow; overwhelming defeat |
| debauchery | wild living; excessive intemperance |
| debilitate | to weaken; to cripple |
| decadent | decaying or decayed especially in terms of morals |
| decimate | to kill or destroy a large part of 10:1 |
| decorous | proper; in good taste; orderly |
| deduce | to conclude from evidence; to infer |
| defame | to libel or slander; to ruin the good name of |
| deference | submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
| definitive | conclusive; providing the last word |
| degenerate | to break down; to deteriorate |
| deleterious | harmful |
| delineate | to describe accurately; to draw in outline |
| delude | to deceive |
| deluge | a flood; an inundation |
| demagogue | a leader of the people but more a rabble rouser |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| depravity | extreme wickedness or corruption |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| deride | to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously |
| derogatory | disapproving; degrading |
| desiccate | to dry out |
| despondent | extremely depressed; full of despair |
| despot | an absolute ruler; an autocrat |
| destitute | extremely poor; utterly lacking |
| desultory | without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random |
| dialectical | relating to discussions; relating to the rules and methods of reasoning; approaching truth in the middle of opposing extremes |
| dictum | an authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim; a proverb |
| didactic | intended to teach; morally instructive; pedantic |
| diffident | timid; lacking in self-confidence |
| digress | to stray from the main subject |
| dilettante | someone with superficial knowledge of the arts; an amateur; a dabbler |
| discern | to have insight; to see things clearly to discriminate; to differentiate |
| discreet | prudent; judiciously reserved |
| discrete | unconnected; separate; distinct |
| discriminate | to notice or point out the difference between two or more things; to discern; to differentiate ; |
| disdain | arrogant scorn; contempt |
| disinterested | not taking sides; unbiased |
| disparage | to belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about usually in a somewhat indirect way |
| disparate | different; incompatible; unequal |
| disseminate | to spread the seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known |
| dissipate | to thin out drift away or dissolve; to cause to thin out drift away or dissolve; to waste or squander |
| dissolution | the breaking up or dissolving of something into parts; disintegration |
| distend | to swell; to extend a great deal |
| distinguish | to tell apart; to cause to stand out |
| docile | easily taught; obedient; easy to handle |
| doctrinaire | inflexibly committed to a doctrine or theory without regard to its practicality; dogmatic |
| dogmatic | arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas; stubbornly claiming that something often a system of beliefs is beyond dispute |
| domestic | having to do with the household or family; not foreign |
| dormant | A inactive; as though asleep; asleep ~volcano ~window |
| dubious | A full of doubt; uncertain a ~ friend be ~ about cf dubitable |
| duplicity | N the act of being two-faced; double-dealing; deception cf duplication duplicate a n v |
| ebullient | A boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant; n ebullience-cy n ebullition |
| eccentric | A not conventional; a little kooky; irregular |
| eclectic | A choosing the best from many sources; drawn from many sources n cf eclecticism |
| edify | Vt to enlighten; to instruct especially in moral or religious matters; cfedifying |
| efface | Vt to erase; to rub away the features of eclipse Cf effaceable effacement |
| effusion | N a pouring forth Effuse v Effusive a |
| egalitarian | A believing in the social and economic equality of all people |
| egocentric | A selfish; believing that one is the center of everything n egoism egoistic -tical |
| egregious | A extremely bad; flagrant |
| elicit | Vt to bring out; to call forth ~a laugh from ~a reply elicitation n |
| elliptical | Adj oval; missing a word or words; obscure |
| Ellipsis | ellipsoid |
| elusive | Adj hard to pin down; evasive elude V elusion |
| emigrate | V to move to a new country; to move a new place to live; to expatriate |
| emigrant | a n immigrate |
| empirical | Adj relying on experience or observation; not merely theoretical ; ~philosophy Empiricism |
| emulate | Vt to strive to equal or excel usually through imitation emulator emulation emulous be emulous of |
| encroach | Vi to make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to trespass on upon |
| endemic | A native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous n endemicity |
| enervate | V to reduce the strength or energy of especially to do so gradually |
| enfranchise | V to grant the privileges of citizenship especially the right to vote |
| engender | V to bring into existence; to create; to cause produce ment |
| enigma | N a mystery riddle |
| enormity | N extreme evil; a hideous offense; immensity |
| ephemeral | A lasting a very short time |
| epigram | N a brief and usually witty or satirical saying |
| epitome | N a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perfect example of something; a paradigm ; |
| equanimity | N composure; calm |
| equitable | Adj fair |
| equivocal | Adj ambiguous; intentionally confusing; capable of being interpreted in more than one way |
| erudite | Adj scholarly; deeply learned ; |
| esoteric | Adj hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar |
| espouse | V to support; to advocate |
| ethereal | Adj heavenly as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether heavenly |
| euphemism | N a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one |
| evanescent | Adj fleeting; vanishing; happening for only the briefest period |
| exacerbate | V to make worse ; |
| exacting | Adj extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care |
| exalt | V to raise high; to glorify |
| exasperate | V to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of |
| exemplify | V to illustrate by example; to serve as a good example |
| exhaustive | Adj thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking |
| exhort | V to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to |
| fabrication | N a lie; something made up |
| facetious | Adj humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous |
| facile | Adj fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy |
| faction | N a group usually a small part of a larger group united around some cause; disagreement within an organization |
| farcical | Adj absurd; ludicrous |
| fastidious | Adj meticulous; demanding; finicky |
| fatalist | N someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them |
| fatuous | Adj foolish; silly; idiotic ; |
| fauna | N animals cf flora animal |
| fecund | Adj fertile; productive |
| felicity | N happiness; skillfulness especially at expressing things; adeptness |
| fervor | N great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal ardor |
| fetter | V to restrain; to hamper |
| fidelity | N faithfulness; loyalty |
| figurative | Adj based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually for something else; metaphorical |
| finesse | N skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness |
| flagrant | Adj glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous |
| flaunt | V show off; to display ostentatiously |
| flout | V to disregard something out of disrespect |
| foible | N a minor character flaw |
| foment | V to stir up; to instigate |
| forbear | v to refrain from ; to abstain |
| forgo | v to do without ; to forbear |
| forsake | v to abandon ; to renounce ; to relinquish |
| fortuitous | a accidental ; occurring by chance |
| founder | v to fail ; to collapse ; to sink |
| fraternal | a like brothers |
| frenetic | a frantic ; frenzied |
| frugal | a economical ; penny-pinching |
| furtive | a secretive ; sly |
| futile | a useless ; hopeless ; |
| garrulous | a talkative; chatty |
| genre | n a type or category especially of art or writing |
| genteel | a refined ; polite ; aristocratic ; affecting refinement |
| gesticulate | v to make gestures especially when speaking or in place of speaking |
| glut | n surplus ; an overabundance |
| grandiloquent | a pompous ; using a lot of big fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive |
| grandiose | a absurdly exaggerated |
| gratuitous | a given freely said of something bad ; unjustified ; unprovoked ; uncalled for |
| gravity | n seriousness |
| gregarious | a sociable ; enjoying the company of others |
| guile | n cunning ; duplicity ; artfulness |
| hackneyed | a overused ; trite ; stale |
| hapless | a unlucky unlucky |
| harbinger | n a forerunner ; a signal of ; |
| hedonism | n the pursuit of pleasure as a way of life |
| hegemony | n leadership especially of one nation over another |
| heresy | n any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs |
| hermetic | a impervious to external influence ; airtight |
| heyday | n golden age ; prime prime |
| hiatus | n a break or interruption often from work ; |
| hierarchy | n an organization based on rank or degree ; pecking order |
| histrionic | a overly dramatic ; theatrical ; |
| homily | n a sermon |
| homogeneous | a uniform ; made entirely of one thing uniform |
| husbandry | n thrifty management of resources ; livestock farming |
| hyperbole | n an exaggeration used as a figure of speech ; exaggeration exaggeration |
| hypothetical | a uncertain ; unproven |
| iconoclast | n one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions |
| ideology | n a system of social or political ideas |
| idiosyncrasy | n a peculiarity ; an eccentricity |
| idyllic | a charming in a rustic way ; naturally peaceful |
| ignominy | n deep disgrace |
| illicit | a illegal ; not permitted |
| imminent | a just about to happen |
| immutable | a unchangeable |
| impartial | a fair ; not favoring one side or the other ; unbiased |
| impeccable | a flawless ; entirely without sin |
| Imperial` | a like an emperor or an empire |
| impervious | a not allowing anything to pass through ; impenetrable |
| impetuous | a impulsive ; extremely impatient ; |
| implement | v to carry out |
| impotent | a powerless ; helpless ; unable to perform sexual intercourse |
| impugn | v to attack especially to attack the truth or integrity of something |
| inane | a silly ; senseless |
| inaugurate | v to begin officially ; to induct formally into office |
| incandescent | a brilliant ; giving off heat or light |
| incantation | n a chant ; the repetition of statements or phrases in a way reminiscent of a chant |
| incense | a make very angry |
| incessant | a unceasing |
| incipient | a beginning ; emerging |
| incisive | a cutting right to the heart of the matter |
| incongruous | a not harmonious ; not consistent ; not appropriate not fitting in |
| incorrigible | a incapable of being reformed |
| increment | n an increase ; one in a series of increases |
| indifferent | a not caring one way or the other ; apathetic ; mediocre |
| indigenous | a native ; originating in that area |
| indigent | a poor |
| indignant | a angry especially as a result of something unjust or unworthy ; insulted |
| indolent | a lazy ; |
| indulgent | lenient ; yielding to desire |
| ineffable | a incapable of being expressed or described |
| inept | a clumsy ; incompetent ; gauche |
| inert | a inactive ; sluggish ; not reacting chemically |
| inexorable | a relentless ; inevitable ; unavoidable |
| infamous | a shamefully wicked ; having an extremely bad reputation ; disgraceful |
| infatuated | a foolish ; foolishly passionate or attracted ; made foolish ; foolishly in love |
| infer | v to conclude ; to deduce |
| infinitesimal | a very very very small ; infinitely small ; |
| ingenuous | a frank ; without deception ; simple ; artless ; charmingly na ve |
| inherent | a part of the essential nature of something ; intrinsic |
| injunction | n a command or order especially a court order |
| innate | a existing since birth ; inborn ; inherent |
| innocuous | a harmless ; banal |
| inordinate | a excessive ; unreasonable |
| insatiable | a hard or impossible to satisfy ; greedy ; avaricious |
| insidious | a treacherous ; sneaky ; |
| insinuate | v to hint ; to creep in hind |
| insipid | a dull ; bland ; banal |
| insolent | a arrogant ; insulting |
| instigate | v to provoke ; to stir up |
| insular | a like an island ; isolated |
| insurgent | n a rebel ; someone who revolts against a government |
| integral | a essential |
| intractable | a uncontrollable ; stubborn ; disobedient |
| intransigent | a uncompromising ; stubborn |
| intrinsic | a part of the essential nature of something ; inherent |
| introspective | a tending to think about oneself ; examining ones feelings |
| inundate | v to flood ; to cover completely with water ; to overwhelm |
| invective | n insulting or abusive speech |
| inveterate | a habitual ; firm in habit ; deeply rooted |
| irascible | a easily angered or provoked ; irritable |
| ironic | a meaning the opposite of what you seem to say ; using words to mean something other than what they seem to mean |
| irrevocable | irreversible |
| itinerant | moving from place to place |
| exigency | an emergency |
| existential | Adj having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism which basically holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is otherwise too complicated to summarize in a single sentence |
| exonerate | to free completely from blame, to exculpate |
| expatriate | to throw (someone) out of his or her native land;to move away from one's native land; to emigrate |
| expedient | providing an immediate advantage, serving one's immediate self-interest, practical |
| expedite | to speed up or ease the progress of |
| explicit | clearly and directly expressed |
| extol | to praise highly, to laud |
| extraneous | unnecessary, irrelevant, extra |
| extrapolate | to project or deduce from something known, to infer |
| extricate | to free from difficulty |
| extrovert | an open, outgoing person, a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself |
| exult | to rejoice, to celebrate |
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