WORD POWER Starting with "E" Flashcards

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Easy-going

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Accepting and easy to get along with

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Echoing

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Repeatedly sounding

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Eden

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Paradise, a place of perfect beauty that does not exist on this earth

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Eerily

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Strangely, weirdly, in a scary manner

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Elegant

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Very beautiful and graceful

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Elongated

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Stretched to make it longer

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Endured

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Tolerated

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Energy conservation

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Act of carefully saving electricity

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Engrossed

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Caught up in something and unable to notice anything else

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Enormous

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Very large

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Ensued

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Resulted, happened immediately after

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Enthralled

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Engrossed in, captivated by ;

“She had been so enthralled by the adventure that she had hardly noticed the cold”

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Eternity

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(literal) forever, (idiomatic) a very long time

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Evidently

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Clearly, obviously

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Exasperation

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Frustration

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Excelling

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Doing very well

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Executed

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Carried out

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Exhausted

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Very tired

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Exhaustion

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Tiredness

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Exhilarating

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Exciting

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Exorbitant

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Overpriced ;

“Some hotels charge exorbitant rates for phone calls”

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Exotic

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Strange and interesting because it is foreign or rarely seen

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Explode

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Erupt

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Exploit

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Make the best use of

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Extravagant

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Overly free in spending

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Exuberance

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Lively enthusiasm or eagerness, (idiomatic) liveliness