'EX, ES, E' Vocab Flashcards
Educate
To lead out (draw out) the inborn abilities of a pupil; to develop or train
Ebullient
Bubbling out; overflowing with enthusiasm
Efface
To remove the face of; to wipe out
Emigrate
To move out of a country (in contrast to immigrate, which means to move in to a country)
Emit
To send out, as a child emits a scream or a factory emits smoke
Emolument
Originally a millers fee for grinding out grain; now a payment for services rendered
Enervate
To take out the nerve; to deprive of nerve, force, vigor; to weaken
Eradicate
To tear out by the roots; to destroy
Excavate
To hollow out, to dig out and remove
Excoriate
To strip the skin off; to denounce harshly.
Exonerate
To take the burden out; to free from a charge or a guilt
Expatiate
To wander out of the course; to digress; to speak or write at length
Expatriate
One who has left ones country or renounced allegiance to it
Export
To carry out of a country
Expurgate
To clean out; to take out obscene or objectionable material