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Fetid

adj. stinking, having a heavy bad smell

Fervent

adj. greatly emotional or zealous

Fell

n. a barren or stony hill; an animal's hide

Feicitious

adj. apt; suitable expressed, well chosen, apropos; delightful

Feckless

adj. ineffectual; irresponsible

Fawn

v. to flatter or praise excessively

Fatuous

adj. silly, inanely foolish

Fanatical

adj. zealous; single-minded obsessed with one thing

Fallow

Adj. untilled, inactive, dormant

Fallacy

n. an invalid or incorrect notion; a mistaken belief

Facetious

adj. playful; humorous; not serious

Extirpate

v. to destroy, exterminate, cut out, pull out by the roots

Extemporaneous

adj. improvised; done without preparation

Expurgate

v. to remove obscenity, purify, censor

Expiate

v. to atone or make amends for

Expatiate

v. to discuss or write about at length; to range freely

Exonerate

v. to remove blame

Exigent

adj. urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention

Exhort

v. to incite, to make urgent appeals

Exemplar

n. typical or standard specimen; paradigm, model

Exculpate

v. exonerate; to clear of blame

Excoriate

V. to censure scathingly, to upbraid

Exact

v. to demand, call for, require, take

Evince

v. to show clearly, to indicate

Evanescent

adj. tending to disappear like vapor, vanishing

Estimable

adj. worthy, formidable

Essay

v. to test or try; attempt, experiment

Esoteric

adj. intended for or understood by a small, specific group

Eschew

v. to shun or avoid

Erudite

adj. very learned; scholarly

Equivocate

v. to use ambiguous language with a deceptive intent.

Equable

adj. level; not able to be easily disturbed

Equanimity

n. composure, self-possession

Epithet

n. disparaging word or phrase

Epicure

n. one devoted to sensual pleasure, particularly in food and drink; gourmand, sybarite.

Ephemeral

adj. brief, fleeting, short-lived

Enormity

n. excessive wickedness, evilness

Enigmatic

adj. mysterious, obscure, difficult to understand

Engender

v. to cause, produce, give rise to

Enervate

v. to weaken; to reduce in vitality

Endemic

adj. characteristic of or often found in a particular locality, region, or people; restricted to or peculiar to that region; indigenous

Encomium

n. glowing and enthusiastic praise; panegyric, tribute, eulogy

Empirical

adj. based on observation or experiment

Emollient

adj. soothing, especially to the skin; making less harsh; mollifying

Effusive

adj. gushing; excessively demonstrative

Efficacy

n. the ability to produce an intended result

Edifying

adj. enlightening, informative

Ebullience

adj. the quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings

Dynamo

n. generator; forceful, energetic person

Dulcet

adj. melodious, harmonious, melliflous

Dross

n. slag, waste or foreign matter, impurity, surface scum

Dogmatic

adj. authoritatively and or arrogantly assertive of principles, which often cannot be proved; stubbornly opinionated

Doggeral

n. trivial, poorly constructed verse

Divulge

v. to disclose something secret

Dissonance

n. lack of harmony; conflict

Dissolution

n. disintegration, looseness in morals

Dissemble

v. to disguise or conceal; to mislead

Disparate

adj. fundamentally distinct or dissimilar

Diparage

v. to slight or belittle

Disinterested

adj. free from self-interest; unbiased

Discretion

n. cautious reserve in speech; ability to make responsible decisions

Discordant

adj. conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound

Discomfit

v. to defeat, put down

Disabuse

v. to undeceive; to set right

Din

n. loud sustained noise

Dilettante

n. one with an amateurish or superficial interest in the arts or a branch of knowledge

Dilatory

adj. causing delay, procrastinating

Diffident

adj. reserved, shy, unassuming; lacking in self-confidence

Die

n. a tool used for shaping

Didactic

adj. intended to teach or instruct

Diatribe

n. a harsh denunciation

Diaphanous

adj. transparent, gauzy

Detraction

n. slandering, verbal attack, aspersion

Desultory

adj. random; thoughtless; marked by a lack of plan or purpose

Desuetude

n. disuse

Desiccate

v. to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull

Derivative

adj. unoriginal, obtained from another source