| Term | Definition |
|---|
| esoteric | hard to understand, understood by only a select few, peculiar |
| espouse | to support, to advocate |
| ethereal | heavenly, as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether |
| euphemism | a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one |
| evanescent | fleeting, vanishing, happening for only the briefest period |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| exacting | extremely demanding, difficult, requiring great skill or care |
| exalt | to raise high, to glorify |
| exasperate | to annoy thoroughly, to make very angry, to try the patience of |
| exemplify | to illustrate by example, to serve as a good example |
| exhaustive | thorough, rigorous, complete, painstaking |
| exhort | to urge strongly, to give a serious warning to |
| hortatory | urging, encouraging, persuading |
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