E’s part 2 – Flashcards
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| equine |
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| pertaining to horses |
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| equinox |
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| the time when day and night are of equal length |
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| equipoise |
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| balance |
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| equitable |
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| fair; just |
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| equity |
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| fairness; justice; impartiality |
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| equivocal |
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| doubtful; ambiguous |
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| equivocate |
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| to confuse by speaking in ambiguous terms |
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| eradicate |
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| to erase; to wipe out |
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| ergo |
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| therefore |
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| erode |
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| wear away |
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| erotic |
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| pertaining to sexual love |
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| err |
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| to make a mistake |
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| errant |
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| wandering ( in search of adventure) ; straying from what is right |
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| erratic |
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| irregular; abnormal |
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| erroneous |
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| mistaken; wrong |
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| ersatz |
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| artificial; inferior substitute |
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| erstwhile |
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| formerly; in the past |
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| erudite |
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| scholarly; learned |
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| escapade |
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| a reckless adventure |
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| escarpment |
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| steep cliff |
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| eschew |
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| to avoid; to keep away from |
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| escrow |
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| `( preceded by in) money deposited with a third person pending fulfillment of a condition |
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| esoteric |
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| for a select few; not generally known |
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| espionage |
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| spying |
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| espouse |
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| to support ( a cause) |
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| essay |
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| to try to attempt; a short personal literarary composition dealing with a single subject |
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| estival |
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| pertaining to summer |
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| estranged |
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| separated; alienated |
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| ethereal |
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| spiritual; airy |
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| ethnic |
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| pertaining to a particular race or culture |
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| etymology |
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| the origin and development of words |
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| eugenics |
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| science of improving the human race |
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| eulogy |
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| praise for a dead person |
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| euphemism |
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| substitution of a pleasant expression for an unpleasant one |
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| euphonious |
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| having a pleasant sound; harmonious |
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| euphoria |
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| a feeling of well-being |
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| euthanasia |
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| mercy killing |
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| evanescent |
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| temporary; fleeting |
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| evasive |
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| not straightforward; tricky |
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| eventuate |
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| to result; to happen finally |
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| evince |
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| to show clearly |
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| evoke |
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| to call forth; to produce |
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| exacerbate |
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| to aggravate; to make more violent |
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| exact |
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| accurate; to demand or require |
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| exasperate |
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| to irritate; to annoy extremely |
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| excise |
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| a tax on liquor, tobacco, etc. ; to cut out or off |
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| excoriate |
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| to scrape the skin off; to criticize sharply |
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| excruciating |
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| unbearably painful |
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| exculpate |
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| to free from blame; to vindicate |
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| execrate |
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| to curse |
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| exemplary |
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| worthy of imitation |
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| exhilaration |
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| liveliness; high spirits |
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| exhort |
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| to warn |
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| exhume |
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| to bring out of hte earth; to reveal |
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| exigent |
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| urgent; critical |
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| exiguous |
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| scanty; small in quantity |
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| exodus |
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| a departure; a going out |
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| exonerate |
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| to free from guilt or blame |
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| exorbitant |
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| excessive; unreasonable |
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| exorcise |
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| to drive out an evil spirit |
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| exotic |
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| foreign; excitingly strange |
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| expatiate |
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| to enlarge upon; to speark or write at length |
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| expatriate |
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| a person who is banished from, or leaves, his native country |
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| expectorate |
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| to spit out |
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| expedient |
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| practical; advantageous |
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| expedite |
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| to speed up; to make easy |
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| expendable |
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| replaceable |
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| expiate |
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| to atone for |
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| explicate |
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| explain in detail; make clear |
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| explicit |
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| clear; unambiguous; direct |
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| exploit |
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| to use for one's own advantage |
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| expound |
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| to explain; to interpret |
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| expressly |
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| especially; particularly |
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| expunge |
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| to erase |
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| expurgate |
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| to remove offensive passages; to cleanse |
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| extant |
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| still in existence |
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| extemporaneous |
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| offhand; done without preparation |
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| extenuating |
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| less serious |
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| extirpate |
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| to destroy; to remove completely |
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| extol |
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| to praise |
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| extort |
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| to obtain by force |
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| extradite |
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| ot give up a prisoner to another authority |
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| extraneous |
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| unrelated; not essential |
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| extrapolate |
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| to estimate; to infer |
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| extricate |
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| to set free; to disentangle |
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| extrinsic |
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| external; coming from outside |
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| extrovert |
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| an outgoing person |
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| exuberant |
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| full of enthusiasm |
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| exude |
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| to discharge; to ooze |
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| exult |
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| to rejoice |
