Esoteric-Exult Flashcards

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Espouse

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To support

To advocate

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Esoteric

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Hard to understand
Understood by a select few
Peculiar

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Ethereal

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Heavenly

As light or insubstantial as a gas or ether

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Euphemism

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Pleasant expression used in place of an offensive one.

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Evanescent

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Fleeting
Vanishing
Happening for only the briefest period

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Exacerbate

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To make worse

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Exacting

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Extremely demanding
Difficult
Requiring great skill or care

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Exalt

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To raise high

To glorify

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Exasperate

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To annoy thoroughly
To make very angry
To try the patience of

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Exemplify

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To illustrate by example

To serve as a good example

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Exhaustive

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Thorough
Rigorous
Complete
Painstaking

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Exhort

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To urge strongly

To give a serious warning to

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Exigency

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An emergency

Urgency

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Existential

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Having to do with existence.
Having to do with the body of thought called existentialism, which holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is too complex to explain in one sentence.

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Exonerate

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To free completely from blame

To exculpate

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Expatriate

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To throw (someone) out of his or her native land. To move away from one's native land
To emigrate
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Expedient

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Providing an immediate advantage
Serving one’s immediate self-interest.
Practical

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Expedite

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To speed up or ease the progress of

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Explicit

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Clearly an directly expressed

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Extol

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To praise highly

To laud

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Extraneous

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Unnecessary
Irrelevant
Extra

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Extrapolate

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To project or deduce from something known

To infer

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Extricate

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To free from difficulty

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Extrovert

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An open person

A person whose attention is focused on others rather than on themselves.

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Exult

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To rejoice

To celebrate