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Question 1

entreat

Answer 1

to plead in order to persuade
[E] He entreated his boss for another chance
[S] beseech; conjure; importune;

Question 2

enunciate

Answer 2

1 to utter articulate sounds;
[E] Enunciate your words, ad then you won’t have to repeat them so often.
[S] articulate;
2 to make known openly or publicly
[E] Today the President enunciate a new foreign policy.
[S] annunciate; broadcast; herald; promulgate;

Question 3

epicure

Answer 3

one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine
[E] Thomas was one of American’s first great epicures.
[S] gastronomist; gourmand;

Question 4

epilogue

Answer 4

1 a concluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work
[A] preface;
2 the final scene of a play that comments or summarize the main action
[S] coda

Question 5

epithet

Answer 5

a descriptive or familiar name given instead of on addition to the one beginning to an individual; a disparaging or abusive word or phrase
[E] King Richard I of England was given the very laudatory epithet “the Lion-Hearted”.
[S] alias; cognomen; sobriquet;

Question 6

equable

Answer 6

not easily disturbed;
[E] equable temperament
[S] balmy; genial; gentle; moderate; temperate; 
[A] harsh; inclement; intemperate;
[P] equanimity; 
[A] agitation; excitability

Question 7

equivocate

Answer 7

to use equivocal language especially with intend to deceive;
[E] When asked his tax plan, the candidate didn’t equivocate
[S] fudge; hedge; weasel; prevaricate; palter;
[P] equivocal;

Question 8

errant

Answer 8

1 traveling from place to place
[E] the errant gunslinger as a standard character in western novels.
[S] ambulant; fugitive; perambulatory; vagabond; vagrant; wandering;
2 straying from the proper course or standards.
[E] errant youngsters
[S] misbehaving; mischievous;
[A] behaved; nice;

Question 9

esoteric

Answer 9

1 difficult to understand
[E] esoteric terminology
[S] abstruse; arcane; hermetic; recondite;
[A] shallow; superficial;
2 not known or meant to be known be the general populace;
[E] The actor must have some esoteric motive for leaving stage.
[S] confidential; inside; intimate;
[A] commonly accepted; generally known; open;

Question 10

espouse

Answer 10

1 to take up and support as a cause
[E] espouse the revolutionary cause
[S] embrace; take up;
[A] abjure; repudiate; 
2 marry;

Question 11

estrange

Answer 11

to arouse especially mutual enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness
[E] He estranged several of his coworkers.
[S] alienate; disaffect; disgruntle;
[A] reconcile;

Question 12

etch

Answer 12

1 to produce on a hard material by eating into the material’s surface
[E] The artist etched his landscape on a copper plate.
[S] grave; incise; inscribe;
2 to provide a vivid impression of
[E] In just a few pages the writer etched an unforgettable portrait of one of the more remarkable First Ladies.
[S] imprint ; infix;

Question 13

ethereal

Answer 13

1 delicate;
[E] The bakery's scrumptious pastries have a wonderfully ethereal consistency.
[S] fluffy; gossamer; 
[A] ponderous
2 of, relating to, or suggesting heaven
[E] a land of ethereal beauty and tranquility
[S] elysian; empyreal; supernal; 
[A] chthonic; hellish; infernal; 
3 spiritual; not composed of matter;
[E] the ethereal attribute that every performer should have --charisma.
[S] bodiless; formless; incorporeal; 
[A] corporeal; material;

Question 14

euphemism

Answer 14

the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
[E] using “eliminate” as a euphemism for “kill”.

Question 15

euphonious

Answer 15

pleasing or agreeable to the ear
[S] mellifluous; canorous;
[A] cacophonous; tuneless;

Question 16

euphoria

Answer 16

a state of overwhelmingly usually pleasurable emotion
[E] The initial euphoria following her victory in the election has now subsided.
[S] rhapsody; exhilaration;
[A] depression;

Question 17

evict

Answer 17

to put out by legal process
[E] Her landlord has threatened to evict her if she doesn’t pay the rent soon.
[A] harbor;

Question 18

evince

Answer 18

to make known through outward signs
[E] evince a strong desire
[S] bespeak; betray; declare; expose;
[A] conceal;

Question 19

entice

Answer 19

to attract artfully or by arousing hope or desire
[E] entice sb. into doing sth.
[S] allure; bait; beguile; seduce; 
[P] enticing; 
[A] formidable;

Question 20

excruciate

Answer 20

to inflict severe pain on; torture
[E] She has been long excruciated by a persistent pain in the back.
[S] plague;
[A] exult;

Question 21

exculpate

Answer 21

to clear from guilt or fault
[E] I have gathered evidence that will exculpate my client.
[S] vindicate; acquit;
[A] inculpate; criminate;

Question 22

excursive

Answer 22

passing from one topic to another
[E] an excursive story line that some readers of Melville’s novel find very rewarding
[S] desultory; rambling ;

Question 23

execrate

Answer 23

1 to declare to be morally wrong or evil
[E] Leaders from all over the world execrated the terrorists responsible for the bomb blast.
[S] anathematize; censure; denounce;
2 to dislike strongly
[E] execrate anyone who would physically abuse children or animals
[S] abhor; abominate; despise;
[A] love

Question 24

exemplary

Answer 24

1 being a pattern to be imitated
[E] As a hospital volunteer he has given exemplary service to his community.
[S] archetypal; imitable; paradigmatic;quintessential;
[P] exemplify;
2 serving as or offering a warning
[E] Armies have traditionally used public execution as an exemplary punishment for the crime of desertion.
[S] admonishing; admonitory; monitory; premonitory;

Question 25

exigent

Answer 25

requiring immediate aid or action
[E] exigent circumstances
[S] compelling; dire; imperative; necessitous;
[A] deferrable; noncritical; nonurgent;

Question 26

exorbitant

Answer 26

exceeding in the customary or appropriate limits
[E] exorbitant prices
[S] extravagant; intolerable; lavish;
[A] middling; moderate;

Question 27

expiate

Answer 27

to extinguish the guilt incurred by
[E] expiate one’s sin
[S] mend; redeem; atone for;

Question 28

expurgate

Answer 28

to remove erroneous, vulgar, obscene, or otherwise objectionable material from a book before publication
[E] an expurgated edition of the letters
[S] bowdlerize; obliterate; launder; clean-up

Question 29

extenuate

Answer 29

lessen the seriousness;
[E] Try to extenuate their vandalism with the old refrain “Boys will be boys.”
[S] deodorize; excuse; gloss over

Question 30

extraction

Answer 30

origin; ancestry
[E] a family of French extraction
[S] bloodline; genealogy; lineage;

Question 31

facetious

Answer 31

joking or jesting often inappropriately;
[E] Stop being facetious, This is the life-and -death moment
[S] jocose; jocular;

Question 32

fallacious

Answer 32

1 containing or based on fallacy
[E] The once-common fallacious claim that girls just weren't any good at math.
[S] illogical; invalid; 
[A] sound; valid; 
[P] fallacy;
2 tending to mislead or deceive; 
[E] fallacious testimony;
[S] beguiling; fraudulent;
[A] authentic; veritable;

Question 33

fallow

Answer 33

1 left untilled or unsown after plowing
[E] The field was lying fallow.
[S] uncultivated;
2 not being in a state of use
[E] The coal mine has been lying fallow since the drop in prices made it unprofitable;
[S] dormant; inert; inoperative;
[A] functioning; operative; operative;