Word List 9 E-I

Question 1

effigy

Answer 1

a statue or image of a person

Question 2

elegiac

Answer 2

sad

Question 3

encipher

Answer 3

to put into code, to disguise

Question 4

ensconce

Answer 4

to settle comfortably or snugly

Question 5

entrenched

Answer 5

held tightly, stuck

Question 6

equivocate

Answer 6

to keep changing one’s mind

Question 7

estrange

Answer 7

1. to keep at a distance

2. to stop caring for someone

Question 8

euphony

Answer 8

harmony, pleasant sound

Question 9

facsimile

Answer 9

exact copy

Question 10

fatuous

Answer 10

silly, foolish

Question 11

fiendish

Answer 11

evil

Question 12

flout

Answer 12

to reject openly

Question 13

fountainhead

Answer 13

beginning, origin

Question 14

fussbudget

Answer 14

fussy person

Question 15

galleon

Answer 15

large ship

Question 16

gamut

Answer 16

entire range of something

Question 17

girth

Answer 17

width

Question 18

grating

Answer 18

irritating, harsh-sounding

Question 19

hamlet

Answer 19

small town or village

Question 20

helmsman

Answer 20

one who steers a ship

Question 21

hone

Answer 21

to sharpen

Question 22

ignoramus

Answer 22

one who knows nothing

Question 23

impetuous

Answer 23

impulsive, spontaneously passionate or violent

Question 24

incessant

Answer 24

never-ending

Question 25

inculcate

Answer 25

to teach through repetition

Question 26

indices

Answer 26

measures, methods of comparing things (plural of index)

Question 27

inextricable

Answer 27

impossible to remove

Question 28

iniquity

Answer 28

wickedness

Question 29

insular

Answer 29

by itself, insulated

Question 30

invocation

Answer 30

prayer