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Elevate

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Raise, lift up; lift the spirits of; move up to a higher rank or status or raise up to a higher spiritual or intellectual plane.

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Elicit

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Call forth, bring out, evoke

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Eloquent

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Marked by forceful, fluid, apt speech; expressive, emotionally moving

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Embellish

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Decorate, add ornamentation; enhance (a story) with fictional or fanciful details

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Eminent

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Prominent, distinguished, of high rank

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Empirical

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Coming from, based on, or able to be verified by experience or experimentation; not purely based on theory

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Emulate

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Copy in an attempt to equal or be better than

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Enervate

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Tire out; weaken

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Enhance

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Raise to a higher value, desirability, etc.

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Enigma

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Puzzle, mystery, riddle; mysterious or contradictory person

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Entitlement

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Having the right to certain privileges; believing, sometimes without cause, that one deserves or has a right to certain privileges

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Enumerate

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Count or list; specify one-by-one

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Ephemeral

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Lasting only a short time, fleeting

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Equitable

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Fair, equal, just

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Erratic

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Inconsistent, wandering, having no fixed course

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Erroneous

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Mistaken, in error; improper, morally incorrect

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Erudite

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Scholarly, knowledgeable; possessing deep, often systematic, knowledge

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Eschew

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Shun, avoid, abstain from

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Esoteric

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Understood by or intended for only a few; secret

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Estimable

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Worthy of esteem, admirable; able to be estimated

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Eulogy

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Speech of praise or written work of praise, exp. a speech given at a funeral

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Exacerbate

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Make worse inflame; irritate or embitter

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Exacting

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Very severe in making demands; requiring precise attention

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Exculpate

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Clear from guilt or blame

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Exhaustive

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Comprehensive, thorough, exhausting a topic or subject, accounting for all possibilities; draining, tending to exhaust

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Explicit

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Direct, clear, fully revealed; clearly depicting sex or nudity

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Exponent

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Person who expounds or explains; champion, advocate, or representative

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant; foreign, coming from without, not belonging

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Extrapolate

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Conjecture about an unknown by projecting information about something known; predict by projecting past experience

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Facetious

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Joking, humorous, esp. inappropriately; not serious, concerned with frivolous things

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Facilitate

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Make easier, help the progress of

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Fallacious

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Containing a fallacy, or mistake in logic; logically unsound; deceptive

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Fanatical

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Excessively devoted, enthusiastic, or zealous in an uncritical way

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Fanciful

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Whimsical, capricious; imaginary; freely imaginative rather than based on reason or reality

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Fathom

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Measure the depth of as with a sounding line; penetrate and discover the meaning of, understand

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Feasible

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Possible; logical or likely; suitable

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Fidelity

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Faithfulness, loyalty; strict observance of duty; accuracy in reproducing a sound or image

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Figurative

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Metaphorical, based on figures of speech; containing many figures of speech; related to portraying human or animal figures, as opposed to abstract objects

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Finesse

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Extreme delicacy, subtlety, or diplomacy in handling a sensitive situation or in a performance or skill; use tact or diplomacy; employ a deceptive strategy

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Flag

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Get tired, lose enthusiasm; hang limply or droop

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Fleeting

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Passing quickly, transitory

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Foment

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Incite, instigate, stir up, promote the growth of; apply medicate liquid to a body part

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Foreshadow

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Indicate or suggest beforehand, presage

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Forfeit

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Surrender or lose as a result of an error, crime, or failure to fulfill an obligation

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Fortify

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Strengthen, invigorate, encourage

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Fringe

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On the margin, periphery; the people in a group who hold the most extreme views

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Frugal

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Economical, thrifty, not wasteful with money; inexpensive

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Futile

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Producing no useful result, ineffective; trivial or unimportant

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Gainsay

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Declare false, deny; oppose

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Garrulous

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Talkative, wordy, rambling

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