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Elusive

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Evasive, hard to pin down

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Elucidate

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to explain and make clear

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Eminent

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Distinguished as being above others by birth

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Emulate

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to strive to equal or excel

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Encroach

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to gradually invade on others space or property

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Enervate

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To sap the strength and energy out of

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Engender

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to cause to develop

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Enormity

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Inmensity

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Equanimity

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Composure, self-possession

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous, and intentionally confusing

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Erudite

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Scholarly, learned

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Espouse

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To take up a cause

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Etiology

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Science or description of causes

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Euphemism

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an inoffensive expression

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Exacerbate

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to aggravate a condition

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Exemplify

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to serve as an example

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Exigency

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an Emergency

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Expatriate

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to denounce allegiance to ones homeland

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Extol

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To sing the praises of

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Exude

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to give off and ooze out