Vocabulary: Key Words and Definitions for Advanced English Learners

Expurgate

To remove something objectionable; purification by removing offensive things.

Exonerate

To free from blame.

Extricate

To free from a constraint or difficulty; untangle.

Effervescent

Lively, bubbly, fizzy.

Emanate

To flow forth from.

Efface

To erase from a surface; make oneself disappear.

Elapse

To pass, as in time.

Expatriate

To leave one's country or be banished; a person living outside their native country.

Elude

To escape, slip out of one's grasp, or get away.

Emit

To give off.