Vocab 7

Question 0

2. Empathy-n.

Answer 0

The intellectual identification with emotions of others

I empathized with my friend when his dog died.

Question 1

1. Embroil-v.

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To bring into discord or conflict, to make worse

My friends were fighting, and I embroiled the situation by joining in.

Question 2

3. Emulate-v.

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To try to equal or excel

The highschool basketball player emulated the Lebron James.

Question 3

4. Enervate-v.

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To deprive of strength; weaken

The athlete fell to enervating after the marathon.

Question 4

5. Engender-v.

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To produce, cause, procreate

The artist is famous for engendering new teqniques

Question 5

Enhance

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-v. To raise to a higher degree: intensify

The tutor enhanced my understanding if calculus.

Question 6

Ephemeral

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-adj. lasting a short time

Around here snow is ephemeral.

Question 7

Epicure

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N. A person who cultivates a refined taste

The epicure demanded the highest quality wine.

Question 8

Estrange

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V. To make unfriendly or hostile; to keep at a distance

The sisters were estranged by the argument and didn’t talk for five years.

Question 9

Euphony

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N. Agreeableness of sound, pleasing to the ear

Mrs. Hanselrig draws euphony out of the choir

Question 10

Evanescence

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vanishing, fading away

I could see right through the evanescence fog

Question 11

Exacerbate

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to make worse

Playing with an injury will exacerbate it

Question 12

Exculpable

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v. To clear from charge of guilt

An attorney’s job is to eculpate his client

Question 13

Execrable

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utterly detestable

The execrable man had no sense of hygiene

Question 14

Exegesis

Answer 14

critical explanation or interpretation of text

The pastors gave an exegesis of Matthew 5