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• eclectic - extensive
• edify - to instruct
• effigy - sculpture, model of a person
• effusive - to express gratitude
• elucidate - to clarify
• emaciated - thin, weak
• empirical - observed, seen
• enervating - tiring
• entomology - the study of insects
• entrench - firmly establish
• epitaph - elegy, commemoration
• euphony - pleasing sound
• evanescent - not lasting long
• evocation - imaginative recreation
• exacerbate - to worsen
• excoriate - to criticize
• extemporize - to improvise