Set 22 Flashcards
Exhort
To incite, to make urgent appeals
At the last second I realized that he was waving his arms frantically to exhort me to look down before I fell of the cliff
Exigent
Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
Exigent circumstances require extreme action
Exonerate
To remove blame
He said he wouldn’t stop rallying until Kobe was exonerated of his rape charges
Expatiate
Discuss or write about at length; to range freely
My aunt expatiated on the subject of her Florida vacation for three hours until we were all bored to death
Expiate
To atone or make amends for
Elvira tried to expiate her lateness by bringing flowers
Expurgate
To remove obscenity, purify, censor
The expurgated version of the novel was incredibly boring; it turned out thy the parts the censors removed had been the only interesting ones
*shares a root with purge, meaning to cleanse
Extant
Existing, not destroyed or lost
There are 48 copies of the Gutenberg Bible extant today
Extemporaneous
Improvised; done without preparation
Her extemporaneous remarks at he reception demonstrated that her speechwriter must largely be responsible for her reputation for eloquence
Extirpate
To destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots
The dodo bird was extirpated by a combination of hunting by humans and predation by non-native animals
Exemplar
Typical or standard specimen; paradigm, model
He was the exemplar of success; if you looked up “successful” in the dictionary, you would probably find his picture next to the definition
