Sparknotes' SAT Vocabulary - E
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- Edict
- An order, decree
- Efface
- To wipe out, obliterate, rub away
- Effervescent
- Bubbly, lively
- Efficacious
- Effective
- Effrontery
- Impudence, nerve, insolence
- Effulgent
- Radiant, splendorous
- Elegy
- A speech given in honor of a dead person
- Elicit
- To bring forth, draw out, evoke
- Elucidate
- To clarify, explain
- Emaciated
- Very thin, enfeebled looking
- Embezzle
- To steal money by falsifying records
- Emend
- To correct or revise a written text
- Eminent
- Distinguished, prominent, famous OR conspicuous
- Emote
- To express emotion
- Empirical
- Based on observation or experience OR capable of being proved or disproved by experiment
- Enamor
- To fill with love, fascinate, usually used in passive form followed by "of" or "with"
- Encumber
- To weigh down, burden
- Enervate
- To weaken, exhaust
- Enfranchise
- To grant the vote to
- Engender
- To bring about, create, generate
- Enigmatic
- Mystifying, crpytic
- Ennui
- Boredom, weariness
- Entail
- To include as a necessary step
- Enthrall
- To charm, hold spellbound
- Ephemeral
- Short-lived, fleeting, transitory
- Epistolary
- Related to or contained in letters
- Epitome
- A perfect example, embodiment
- Equanimity
- Composure
- Equivocal
- Ambiguous, uncertain, undecided
- Erudite
- Learned
- Eschew
- To shun, avoid
- Esoteric
- Understood by only a few, arcane
- Espouse
- To take up as a cause, support
- Ethereal
- Heavenly, exceptionally delicate or refined
- Etymology
- The history of words, their origin and development
- Euphoric
- Elated, uplifted
- Evanescent
- Fleeting, momentary, transitory, ephemeral
- Evince
- To show, reveal
- Exacerbate
- To make more violent, intense
- Exasperate
- To irritate, irk
- Excursion
- A trip or outing
- Execrable
- Loathsome, detestable
- Exhort
- To urge, prod, spur
- Exigent
- Urgent, critical
- Exonerate
- To free from guilt or blame, exculpate, vindicate
- Exorbitant
- Excessive
- Expedient
- Advisable, advantageous, serving one's self-interest
- Expiate
- To make amends for, atone
- Expunge
- To obliterate, eradicate
- Expurgate
- To remove offensive or incorrect parts, usually of a book
- Extant
- Existing, not destroyed or lost
- Extol
- To praise, revere
- Extraneous
- Irrelevant, extra, not necessary
- Extricate
- To disentangle
- Exult
- To rejoice