WS lists 35-40 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| ebullient | boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant |
| eccentric | not conventional; a little kooky; irregular |
| eclectic | choosing the best from many sources; drawn from many sources |
| edify | to enlighten; to instruct, esp in moral or religious matters |
| efface | to erase; to rub away the features of |
| self-effacting | to be modest |
| effusion | a pouring forth. when the hcild was rescued from the well, there was an intense effusion of emotion from the crowd that had gathered around the hold |
| effusive | to be highly emotional |
| egalitarian | believing in the social and economic equality of people |
| egocentric | selfish; believing that one is the center of everything |
| egregious | extremely bad; flagrant |
| egotist | self-obsessed person |
| elicit | to bring out; to call forth |
| illicit | not legally permitted or authorized; unlicensed; unlawful |
| elliptical | oval; missing a word or words; obscure |
| elusive | hard to pin down; evasive |
| elude | to avoid, evade or escape |
| emigrate | to move to a new country ; to move to a new place to live |
| expatriate | to emigrate; move to a new country |
| migrant | to move from one place to another |
| immigrate | to arrive in one country from another |
| eminent | well-known and repsected; standing out from all others in quality or accomplishment; outstanding |
| imminent | likely to occur at any moment; impending |
| empirical | relying on experience or observation; not merely theoretical |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel, ususally through imitation |
| encroach | to make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to tresspass |
| endemic | native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous |
| endemic | to reduce the strength or energy of, esp to do so gradually |
| enfranchise | to grant the privileges of citizenship, esp the right to vote |
| disenfranchise | to take away the privelges of citizenship, esp the right to vote |
| engender | to bring into existance; to create; to cause |
| enormity | extreme evil; a hideous offense; immensity ... also hugeness |
| immensity | hugeness, grewat size |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| epigram | a brief and ususlaly witty or satirical saying |
| epigraph | an apt quotation placed at the beginning of a book or essay |
| epitaph | a commemorative inscription on a grave |
| epithet | a term used to characterize the nature of something; someimes a disparaging term used to describe a person |
| epitome | a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perf example of something; a paradigm |
| equanimity | composure; calm |
| equitable | fair |
| equity | fairness |
| inequity | unfairness |
| iniquity | unfiar, wickedness |
| equivocal | ambiguous; intentionally confusing; capable of being interpreted in more than one way |
| erudite | scholarly; deeply learned |
| erudition | extensive knowledge |
| equivocate | to mislead by saying confusing or ambiguous things |
| esoteric | hard to understand; understood by only a select few |
| 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 unleasant or offensive one |
| evanescent | fleeting; vanishing; happening for only the briefest period |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| exacting | extremely demanding; difficult; requring great skill or care |
| exalt | to raise high; to glorify |
| exasperate | to annoyt horoughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of |
| exemplify | to illustrate by example; to serve as a good examble |
| exemplar | an ideal model or paradign |
| exhaustive | thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking |
| exhort | to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to |
| hortatory | urging |
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