Set 22 Flashcards

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Exhort

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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

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Exigent

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Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

Exigent circumstances require extreme action

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Exonerate

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To remove blame

He said he wouldn’t stop rallying until Kobe was exonerated of his rape charges

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Expatiate

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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

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Expiate

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To atone or make amends for

Elvira tried to expiate her lateness by bringing flowers

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Expurgate

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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

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Extant

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Existing, not destroyed or lost

There are 48 copies of the Gutenberg Bible extant today

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Extemporaneous

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Improvised; done without preparation

Her extemporaneous remarks at he reception demonstrated that her speechwriter must largely be responsible for her reputation for eloquence

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Extirpate

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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

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Exemplar

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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

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