E-Words Flashcards
Ebullient
Joyously unrestrained
Eclectic
Selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
Efficacy
Capacity or power to produce a desired result
Effrontery
Audacious behavior that you have no right to
Elegy
A mournful poem; a lament for the dead
Elicit
Call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
Embellish
Make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color
Empirical
Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
Emulate
Strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
Endemic
Native to or confined to a certain region
Enervate
Weaken physically, mentally, or morally
Engender
Call forth
Enhance
Increase
Ephemeral
Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
Equanimity
Steadiness of mind under stress
Equivocate
Be deliberately, ambiguous or unclear
Erudite
Having or showing profound knowledge
Esoteric
Understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
Eulogy
A formal expression of praise for someone who has died
Euphemism
An inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
Exacerbate
Make worse
Exculpate
Pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
Exigency
A pressing or urgent situation
Extrapolation
An inference about the future based on known facts
