E Flashcards
Eclectic
Ee CLEC tic
Having very varying tastes.
Having French, modern, and stone furniture.
Ebullient
Ee BULL yent
Crazy joy. IM SO HAPPY IM GONNA DIE!!!
Efface
Eh FACE
V
To erase
Effervescent
Bubbly
Of personality or liquid
Effulgent
A
Radiating light
Emphatic
Emphatic means forceful and clear. Nicole’s mother was emphatic when she told her not to come home late again.
Empirical
Drawn from experiment, not theory
Encumber
V
To weigh down, physically or emotionally
Endemic
Extremely prevalent in a specific area
Disease in Africa or saggy pants in lunchroom
Enmity
Feeling of hostility toward some thing else
Ennui
Ahn WEE
N
Being bored by something tedious.
Entreat
V
To beseech
Enumerate
V
To enumerate is to list or count off one by one.
Ephemeral
PHEM
Something that is fleeting or short-lived is ephemeral, like a fly that lives for one day or text messages flitting from cellphone to cellphone.
Equivocate
When you are unwilling to make a decision and almost intentionally go back and forth between two choices, you are equivocating.