| Term | Definition |
| exigency | an emergency, an urgency |
| exigent | urgent, requiring immediate action |
| existential | having to do with existence |
| exonerate | to free completely from blame, to exculpate |
| expatriate | to throw someone away from his native land, to emigrate |
| expedient | providing an immediate advantage, serving one’s immediate self-interest, practical OR something that has an expedient effect |
| 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 |
| interpolate | to interject, insert, fill in the gaps |
| extricate | to free from difficulty |
| extrovert | an open, outgoing person, a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself |
| introvert | a person whose attention is directed inward and who is concerned with little outside himself |
| exult | to rejoice, to celebrate |