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Esoteric - Fecund
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English
10th Grade
02/12/2008

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Esoteric
Definition
Hard to understand, understood by only a select few, peculiar
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Espouse
Definition
To support, to advocate
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Ethereal
Definition
Heavenly, as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether
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Euphemism
Definition
A pleasant or inoffensive expression, used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one
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Evanescent
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Fleeting, vanishing, happening for only the briefest period
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Exacerbate
Definition
To make worse
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Exacting
Definition
Extremely demanding, difficult, requiring great skill or care
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Exalt
Definition
To raise high, to glorify
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Exasperate
Definition
To annoy thoroughly, to make very angry, to try the patience of
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Exemplify
Definition
To illustrate by example, to serve as a good example
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Exhaustive
Definition
Thorough, rigorous, complete, painstaking
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Exhort
Definition
To urge strongly, to give a serious warning to
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Exigency
Definition
An emergency, an urgency
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Existential
Definition
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
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Exonerate
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To free completely from blame, to exculpate
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Expatriate
Definition
To throw (someone) out of his or her native land, to move away from one's native land, to emigrate
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Expedient
Definition
Providing an immediate advantage serving one's immediate self-interest, practical
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Expedite
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To speed up or ease the progress of
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Explicit
Definition
Clearly and directly expressed
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Extol
Definition
To praise highly, to laud
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Extraneous
Definition
Unnecessary, irrelevant, extra
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Extrapolate
Definition
To project or deduce from something known, to infer
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Extricate
Definition
To free from difficulty
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Extrovert
Definition
An open, outgoing person
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Exult
Definition
To rejoice, to celebrate
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Fabrication
Definition
A lie, something made up
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Facetious
Definition
Humorous, not serious, clumsily humorous
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Facile
Definition
Fluent, skillful in a superficial way, easy
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Faction
Definition
A group, usually a small part of a larger group united around some cause, disagreement within an organization
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Farcical
Definition
Absurd, ludicrous
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Fastidious
Definition
Meticulous, demanding, finicky
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Fatalist
Definition
Someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them
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Fatuous
Definition
Foolish, silly, idiotic
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Fauna
Definition
Animals
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Fecund
Definition
Fertile, productive
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Root - Esce
Definition
Becoming - Adolescent, luminescent
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Root - Eu
Definition
Good well - Eugenics, euphoria, eulogy
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Root - Extra
Definition
Outside of, beyond - Extraordinary
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Root - Fab/fam
Definition
Speak - fable, fabulous, famous
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Root - Fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy
Definition
To do, to make - Factory, benefactor
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