| Question |
Answer |
| Eclectic |
Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources |
| Efficacy |
Effectiveness |
| Elegy |
A sorrowful poem or speech |
| Eloquent |
Persuasive and moving, especially in speech |
| Embellish |
To add ornamental or fictitious details |
| Emulate |
To copy; to try to equal or excel |
| Enervate |
To reduce in strength |
| Engender |
To produce, cause, or bring about |
| Enigma |
A puzzle, a mystery |
| Enumerate |
To count, list, itemize |
| Ephemeral |
Lasting a short time |
| Equivocate |
To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead |
| Erratic |
Wandering and unpredictable |
| Erudite |
Learned, scholarly, bookish |
| Esoteric |
Known or understood only by a few |
| Estimable |
Admirable |
| Eulogy |
Speech in praise of someone |
| Euphemism |
Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one |
| Exacerbate |
To make worse |
| Exculpate |
To clear from blame; prove innocent |
| Exigent |
Urgent; requiring immediate action |
| Exonerate |
To clear of blame |
| Explicit |
Clearly stated or shown; forthright in expression |
| Fanatical |
Acting excessively enthusiastic |
| Fawn |
To grovel |