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  1. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  2. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  3. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  4. embellish
    make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color
  5. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  6. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  7. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  8. engender
    call forth
  9. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  10. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  11. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  12. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  13. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  14. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  15. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  16. exacerbate
    make worse
  17. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  18. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  19. extrapolation
    an inference about the future based on known facts
  20. facetious
    cleverly amusing in tone
  21. fallacious
    containing or based on incorrect reasoning
  22. fatuous
    devoid of intelligence
  23. fawning
    attempting to win favor by flattery
  24. felicitous
    exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
  25. fervor
    feelings of great warmth and intensity
  26. fledgling
    young bird that has just become capable of flying
  27. foment
    try to stir up
  28. forestall
    keep from happening or arising; make impossible
  29. gainsay
    take exception to
  30. goad
    stab or urge on as if with a pointed stick
  31. gouge
    an impression in a surface, as made by a blow
  32. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  33. guileless
    innocent and free of deceit
  34. gullible
    naive and easily deceived or tricked
  35. harangue
    a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion
  36. hyperbole
    extravagant exaggeration
  37. iconoclastic
    characterized by attack on established beliefs
  38. idolatry
    the worship of objects or images as gods
  39. immutable
    not subject or susceptible to change or variation
  40. impassive
    having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
  41. impermeable
    preventing especially liquids to pass or diffuse through
  42. imperturbable
    marked by extreme calm and composure
  43. impervious
    not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
  44. implacable
    incapable of being appeased or pacified
Created on 五月 15, 2012

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