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Eccentric

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Unconventional

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Ebullient

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Lively and enthusiastic

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Eclectic

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Choosing from various sources

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Economy

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Effectiveness; thrift

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Edifice

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Large building

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Edify

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Enlighten

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Efface

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To rub away; behave humbly

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Effervesce

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To produce tiny gas bubbles; to be lively/excited

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Efficacious

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Able to effect something

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Effigy

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Dummy representing someone disliked

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Effrontery

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Shameless nerve

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Effusive

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Unrestrained in expressing feelings

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Egregious

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Outrageously bad

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Élan

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Vigor and enthusiasm

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Elliptical

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Highly concise in speech or writing

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Elocution

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Art of clear speaking

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Elucidate

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Explain something

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Emanate

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Originate, arise

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Embezzle

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Misuse entrusted money or property

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Emend

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Correct text

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Eminent

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Of high standing; noticeable

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Emissary

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Representative

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Emollient

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Soothing to skin; calming

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Empirical

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Based on observation and experiment

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Enamored

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Captivated; charmed

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Endemic

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Occurring in a particular place

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Enervate

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Weaken

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Enfranchise

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Give someone right to vote

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Enmity

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Hostility

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Entourage

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People accompanying VIP

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Entreat

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Plead desperately

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Epistolary

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Associated with correspondence by letter

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Epitaph

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Inscription on tombstone

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Epitome

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Typical example

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Equanimity

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Calm temperament

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous

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Equivocation

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Use of ambiguity

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Erudition

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Scholarship

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Eschew

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Avoid habitually on moral or practical grounds

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Esoteric

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Restricted to initiated; intended for/understood by only an initiated few.

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Espouse

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Adopt/support something

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Estimable

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Admirable

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Etymology

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Study of word origins

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Exacting

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Demanding attention

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Excise

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Tax

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Excoriate

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To denounce/berate severely

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Exculpate

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Prove someone innocent

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Execrable

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Very bad

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Exonerate

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Free someone from blame/guilt

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Exorbitant

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Unreasonably high or large

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Expansive

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Communicative

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Expedient

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Appropriate; advantageous for practical rather than moral reasons

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Expiate

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Atone for wrongdoing

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Explication

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Explain something in a detailed or formal way

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Expostulate

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To reason earnestly with someone against something they plan to do/has already done

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Expropriate

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Take away something belonging to someone

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Expurgate

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Edit something by removing offensive parts

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Extant

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Existing

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Extemporize

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Perform something without preparation

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Extenuate

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Diminish the seriousness of

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Extirpate

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Completely remove something undesirable

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Extol

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Praise someone or something

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Extrapolate

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Infer

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Extricate

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Release with difficulty

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Extrinsic

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Inessential; from the outside

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