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22 Cards in this Set
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enamored (of)
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in love with
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enclave
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country/part of a country surrounded by another country
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encomium
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expression of high praise
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This part of the existing hymn ends with an encomium of the Delian festival of Apollo and of the Delian choirs.
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encumbrance
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hundrance, obstruction
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He failed to see any advantage in carrying about such a useless encumbrance.
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endemic
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confined o a particular country or area
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“He has no business in this quarter, unless it be curiosity, which is an endemic in these woods.
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enervate
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to weaken
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or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?
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enfranchise
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to give the right to vote
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But if a man have the fortitude, and resolution, to enfranchise himself at once, that is the best:
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enmity
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hostility, hatred
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Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,
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ensconce
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to hide, to conceal, to settle comfortably
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et us ensconce ourselves in the vestibule of the sanctuary; he will be here anon.
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entity
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independant being
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vitriolic
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Bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism.
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"If you are not good, none is good"-- those little words may give a terrific meaning to responsibility, may hold a vitriolic intensity for remorse.
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envisage
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to imagine, to form a mental picture
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He did not at first envisage his own plight in definite and comprehensible terms.
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epigram
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witty saying
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In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
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epistle
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a letter
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Ruby Gillis wrote a gushing epistle deploring Anne's absence, assuring her she was horribly missed in everything,
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epithet
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descriptive word or prase
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I don't know; but if they do, I believe he merits the epithet.
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equanmity
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calmness, evenness of temperament
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equipoise
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balance
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, still hung suspended, in my mind, in beautiful equipoise.
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equivocal
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doubtful, ambiguous
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Johnson, the man who had chafed me raw when I first came aboard, seemed the least equivocal of the men forward or aft.
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equivocate
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to confuse by speaking in ambiguous terms
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erotic
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pertraining to sexual love
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If they had not done justice to his erotic bellowings and gesticulations, he stuck in, in a large inky scrawl, all and more than they had omitted.
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ersatz
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artificial, inferior substitute
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ersatz elevator
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erstwhile
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meanwhile
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In the great world, where great captains of industry die, all wheels under their erstwhile management are stopped for a minute
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