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Exacerbate

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to intensify bitterness or violence

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Excoriate

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to denounce; to chafe

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Exculpate

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to remove blame; acquit

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Exhort

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to urge or try to persuade

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Exigent

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demanding immediate attention;urgent

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Explicate

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to explain or make comprefensible

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Expunge

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to get rid of or erase

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Extant

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currently existing

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Extenuating

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partially justifiable

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Extol

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to praise or glorify

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Extricate

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to free or disentangle

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Exultant

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gleeful because of success

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Fallacy

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an error in reasoning

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Fathom

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to come to understand the meaning of something

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Fatuous

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foolish or delusive; smug

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