Vocab E Flashcards
Edifying
Adj enlightening, informative
Ebullience
Adj the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
Efficacy
N the ability to produce N intended result
Effrontery
N extreme boldness; presumptuous ness
Effusive
Adj gushing; excessively demonstrative
Egress
N exit
Elegy
N a mournful poem, especially one lamenting the dead; any mournful writing or piece of music
Eloquent
Adj well-spoken; expressive; articulate
Emollient
Adjacent soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying
Encomium
N glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy
Endemic
Adj characteristic of or often found in particular locality, region, or people; restricted to it peculiar to that region
Enervate
V to weaken; reduce in vitality
Engender
V to cause, produce, give rise to
Enigmatic
Adj mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand
Ennui
(Ahn WEE)
N dissatisfaction and restlessness resulting from boredom or apathy
Enormity
N excessive wickedness, evilness
Ephemeral
Adj brief; fleeting, short lived
Epicure
N one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in good and drink; gourmand, sybarite