Tuesday, June 7, 2016

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1.ECLECTIC: selecting from or made up from variety of sources 

similar meanings: SELECTIVE      CATHOLIC       BROAD

2.EFFICACY: effectiveness

similar meanings: DYNAMISM      PROFICIENCY       STRENGTH        VIGOR
                              PRODUCTIVENESS                           FORCE

3.ELEGY: a sorrowful poem or speech

similar meanings:  DIRGE       LAMENT

4.ELOQUENT persuasive and moving , especially in speech

similar meanings:  ARTICULATE       EXPRESSIVE     MEANINGFUL      SIGNIFICANT

5.EMULATE: to copy , to try to equal or excel

similar meanings: APE        IMITATE        SIMULATE

6.ENERVATE: to reduce in strength

similar meanings:  DEBILITATE      WEAKEN       ENFEEBLE       SAP

7.ENGENDER: to produce , bring about

similar meanings: PROCREATE      GENERATE       PROLIFERATE     SPAWN
                              REPRODUCE      BEGET

8.ENIGMA: a puzzle , a mystery

similar meanings:  CONUNDRUM     PERPLEXITY

9.ENUMERATE: to count , list

similar meanings: CATALOG    INDEX        TABULATE

10.EPHEMERAL: lasting a short time

similar meanings: EVANESCENT     MOMENTARY      FLEETING     TRANSIENT

11.EQUIVOCATE: to use expressions of double meanings in order to mislead

similar meanings: AMBIGUOUS      EVASIVE       WAFFLING

12.ERRATIC: wandering , predictable

similar meanings: CAPRICIOUS     INCONSTANT     IRRESOLUTE      WHIMSICAL

13.ERUDITE: learned , scholarly  , bookish

similar meanings: SCHOLASTIC      WISE

14.ESOTERIC: known or understood by only a few

similar meanings: ABSTRUSE        ARCANE       OBSCURE

15.ESTIMABLE: admirable

similar meanings: COMMENDABLE     CREDITABLE     HONOURABLE     WORTHY
                               RESPECTABLE        VENERABLE      LAUDABLE

16.EULOGY: speech in praise of someone

similar meanings:  COMMEND      EXTOL    LAUD

17.EUPHEMISM: use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one 

similar meanings:  CIRCUMLOCUTION        WHITEWASH

18.EXACERBATE: to make worse

similar meanings:  ANNOY     AGGRAVATE      INTENSIFY     IRRITATE    PROVOKE

19.EXCULPATE: to clear from blame ,  prove innocent

similar meanings: EXONERATE       ABSOLVE      VINDICATE     ACQUIT

20.EXIGENT: urgent , required immediate action

similar meanings: CRITICAL      IMPERATIVE     NEEDED    

21.EXPLICIT: clearly stated or shown

similar meanings: CANDID     FRANK     UNEQUIVOCAL




























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