Sparknotes' Sat Vocabulary - E

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Edict

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An order, decree

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Efface

Back 2

To wipe out, obliterate, rub away

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Effervescent

Back 3

Bubbly, lively

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Efficacious

Back 4

Effective

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Effrontery

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Impudence, nerve, insolence

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Effulgent

Back 6

Radiant, splendorous

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Elegy

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A speech given in honor of a dead person

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Elicit

Back 8

To bring forth, draw out, evoke

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Elucidate

Back 9

To clarify, explain

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Emaciated

Back 10

Very thin, enfeebled looking

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Embezzle

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To steal money by falsifying records

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Emend

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To correct or revise a written text

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Eminent

Back 13

Distinguished, prominent, famous OR conspicuous

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Emote

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To express emotion

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Empirical

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Based on observation or experience OR capable of being proved or disproved by experiment

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Enamor

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To fill with love, fascinate, usually used in passive form followed by "of" or "with"

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Encumber

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To weigh down, burden

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Enervate

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To weaken, exhaust

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Enfranchise

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To grant the vote to

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Engender

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To bring about, create, generate

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Enigmatic

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Mystifying, crpytic

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Ennui

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Boredom, weariness

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Entail

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To include as a necessary step

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Enthrall

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To charm, hold spellbound

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Ephemeral

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Short-lived, fleeting, transitory

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Epistolary

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Related to or contained in letters

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Epitome

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A perfect example, embodiment

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Equanimity

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Composure

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Equivocal

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Ambiguous, uncertain, undecided

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Erudite

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Learned

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Eschew

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To shun, avoid

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Esoteric

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Understood by only a few, arcane

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Espouse

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To take up as a cause, support

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Ethereal

Back 34

Heavenly, exceptionally delicate or refined

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Etymology

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The history of words, their origin and development

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Euphoric

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Elated, uplifted

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Evanescent

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Fleeting, momentary, transitory, ephemeral

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Evince

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To show, reveal

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Exacerbate

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To make more violent, intense

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Exasperate

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To irritate, irk

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Excursion

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A trip or outing

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Execrable

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Loathsome, detestable

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Exhort

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To urge, prod, spur

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Exigent

Back 44

Urgent, critical

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Exonerate

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To free from guilt or blame, exculpate, vindicate

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Exorbitant

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Excessive

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Expedient

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Advisable, advantageous, serving one's self-interest

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Expiate

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To make amends for, atone

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Expunge

Back 49

To obliterate, eradicate

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Expurgate

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To remove offensive or incorrect parts, usually of a book

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Extant

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Existing, not destroyed or lost

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Extol

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To praise, revere

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Extraneous

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Irrelevant, extra, not necessary

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Extricate

Back 54

To disentangle

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Exult

Back 55

To rejoice