SAT Vocab - E

ebullient

boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant (ebullience/cy, ebullition)

eccentric

not conventional; a little kooky; irregular

eclectic

choosing the best from many sources; drawn from many sources (eclecticism)

edify

to enlighten; to instruct, especially in moral or religious matters (edifying)

efface

to erase; to rub away the features of (eclipse, effaceable, effacement)

effusion

a pouring forth (effuse, effusive)

egalitarian

believing in the social and economic equality of all people

egocentric

selfish; believing that one is the center of everything (egoism, egoistic/tical)

egregrious

extremely bad; flagrant

elicit

to bring out; to call forth (elicitation)

elliptical

oval; missions a word or words; obscure (elude, elusion)

elusive

hard to pin down; evasive (elude, elusion)

emigrate

to move to a new country; to move a new place to live; to expatriate (emigrant, // immigrate)

empirical

relying on experience or observation; not merely theoretical (empiricism)

emulate

to strive to equal or excel, using through imitation (emulator, emulation, emulous)

encroach

to make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to trespass

endemic

native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous (endemicity)

enervate

to reduce the strength or energy of, especially to do so gradually

enfranchise

to grant the privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote (enfranchisement)

engender

to bring into existence; to create; to cause (engenderment)

enigma

a mystery

enormity

extreme evil; a hideous offense; immensity

ephermeral

lasting a very short time

epigram

a brief and usually witty or satirical saying

epitome

a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole, the perfect example of something; a paradigm

equanimity

composure; calm

equitable

fair

equivocal

ambiguous; intentionally confusing; capable of being interpreted in more than one way

erudite

scholarly; deeply learned

esoteric

hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar

espouse

to support; to advocate

ethereal

heavenly, as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether

euphemism

a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one

evanescent

fleeting; vanishing; happening for only the briefest period

exacerbate

to make worse

exacting

extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care

exalt

to raise high; to glorify

exasperate

to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of

exemplify

to illustrate by example; to serve as a good ecxample

exhaustive

thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking

exhort

to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to

exigency

an emergency; an urgency

existential

having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism, which basically holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is otherwise too complicated to summarize in a single sentence

exonerate

to free completely from blame; to exculpate

expatriate

to throw (someone) out of his or her native land; to move away from ones native land; to emigrat

expedient

providing an immediate advantage; serving ones immediate self-interest; practical

expedite

to speed up or ease the progress of

explicit

clearly and directly expressed

extol

to praise highly; to laud

extraneous

unnecessary; irrelevant; extra

extrapolate

to protect or deduce from something known; to infer

extricate

to free from difficulty

extrovert

an open outgoing person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather than on himself or herself

exult

to rejoice; to celebrate