[node:title] Flashcards

11471455512	dulcet	sweet, pleasant to the ear, soothing to the eye of the feelings	0
11471455513	duplicity	deception, two-faced behavior, trickery	1
11471455514	duress	pressure, force, coercion (often in law, usually the phrase "under ____________"	2
11471455515	dynamic	energetic, changing, vigorously active	3
11471455516	ebullition	exuberance, overflowing of passion or feeling	4
11471455517	eccentric	odd	5
11471455518	éclat	1. brilliance of success; 2. a showy or elaborate display, acclaim	6
11471455519	eclogue	a poem about the countryside, often in dialogue form	7
11471455520	edify	to enlighten intellectually or spiritually, to inform, to teach	8
11471455521	efface	to erase	9
11471455522	effete	worn out, exhausted, infertile, synonym for defunct	10
11471455523	efficacious	capable of producing an effect, effective as a way to do something (usually medicine)	11
11471455524	effigy	a dummy, image, copy, (often meant to be crude and ridiculed. always a person)	12
11471455525	effrontery	shameless, boldness, audacious behavior	13
11471455526	egregious	outstandingly and obviously bad	14
11471455527	elicit	to draw forth, bring out	15
11471455528	eloquent	well spoken	16
11471455529	elusive	tough to catch or pin down	17
11471455530	emaciated	haggard, wasted, skinny, visibly starved	18
11471455531	emanate	to issue forth, flow or proceed from source of origin	19
11471455532	embellish	to add details, decorate	20
11471455533	embezzle	steal through fraudulent bookkeeping	21
11471455534	emollient	1. softener, an agent that mollifies; 2. having the power to soothe and relax	22
11471455535	emolument	payment for service, earning, salary, pay	23
11471455536	empirical	based on observation or experience, not in theory or proof (usually evidence)	24
11471455537	emulate	imitate with effort to be equal or better	25
11471455538	encomium	formal praise	26
11471455539	endorse	give support	27
11471455540	enduring	lasting	28
11471455541	engender	to cause, start, produce	29
11471455542	enhance	to increase, make better	30
11471455543	enigma	something puzzling or hard to explain (like a riddle)	31
11471455544	enjoin	to command, divest orders to do something	32
11471455545	ephemeral	short-lived	33
11471455546	epicure	connoisseur, one who cultivates a fine taste	34
11471455547	epitaph	writing on a tombstone	35
11471455548	epithet	tag, label	36
11471455549	epitome	the best example of a certain trait or description	37
11471455550	equable	1. even tempered, mellow; 2. free from much change, uniform	38
11471455551	equanimity	calmness, especially under stress of other strains	39
11471455552	equitable	(adj) just, fair	40
11471455553	equity	(v) fairness, impartiality	41
11471455554	equivocal	uncertain, deliberately misleading, ambiguous	42
11471455555	erratic	irregular, unpredictable	43
11471455556	eschew	to avoid, reject, shun	44
11471455557	esoteric	understood by few	45
11471455558	espouse	to give support, to give approval, to get married	46
11471455559	estrange	to alienate	47
11471455560	ethereal	light, airy, delicate, heavenly	48
11471455561	ethnology	science of radical origins	49
11471455562	etymology	science of word origins	50
11471455563	eulogy	speech of praise for the dead at a funeral	51
11471455564	euphemism	a nice way to say something profane or inappropriate	52
11471455565	euphony	pleasing sound of words (sound only)	53
11471455566	evanescent	vanishing, fleeting, something that does not last very long	54
11471455567	exacerbate	to aggravate, make worse	55
11471455568	exculpate	to free of guilt, to remove culpability	56
11471455569	execration	to curse/a curse	57
11471455570	exemplary	outstanding	58
11471455571	exemplify	to serve as an example	59