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enamored (of)
in love with
enclave
country/part of a country surrounded by another country
encomium
expression of high praise
This part of the existing hymn ends with an encomium of the Delian festival of Apollo and of the Delian choirs.
encumbrance
hundrance, obstruction
He failed to see any advantage in carrying about such a useless encumbrance.
endemic
confined o a particular country or area
“He has no business in this quarter, unless it be curiosity, which is an endemic in these woods.
enervate
to weaken
or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?
enfranchise
to give the right to vote
But if a man have the fortitude, and resolution, to enfranchise himself at once, that is the best:
enmity
hostility, hatred
Made peace of enmity, fair love of hate,
ensconce
to hide, to conceal, to settle comfortably
et us ensconce ourselves in the vestibule of the sanctuary; he will be here anon.
entity
independant being
vitriolic
Bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism.
"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.
envisage
to imagine, to form a mental picture
He did not at first envisage his own plight in definite and comprehensible terms.
epigram
witty saying
In the society in which she lived such plain statements produced the effect of the wittiest epigram.
epistle
a letter
Ruby Gillis wrote a gushing epistle deploring Anne's absence, assuring her she was horribly missed in everything,
epithet
descriptive word or prase
I don't know; but if they do, I believe he merits the epithet.
equanmity
calmness, evenness of temperament
equipoise
balance
, still hung suspended, in my mind, in beautiful equipoise.
equivocal
doubtful, ambiguous
Johnson, the man who had chafed me raw when I first came aboard, seemed the least equivocal of the men forward or aft.
equivocate
to confuse by speaking in ambiguous terms
erotic
pertraining to sexual love
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.
ersatz
artificial, inferior substitute
ersatz elevator
erstwhile
meanwhile
In the great world, where great captains of industry die, all wheels under their erstwhile management are stopped for a minute