| A | B |
| earthenware | dishes made of baked clay |
| ebullience | exuberance outburst of feeling |
| ecumenical | representing the whole Christian world |
| edacious | voracious devouring |
| eddy | circular or spiral movment |
| effete | infertile worn out weak |
| effluvia | outflow in a stream of particles a noxious odor or vapor |
| egress | way out exit |
| elegy | a lament a melancholy composition |
| emote | stir up excite |
| encomium | warm or glowing praise eulogy panegyric |
| encumbrance | burden things that get on the way of |
| endemic | epidemic |
| engender | cause produce give rise to |
| enmity | hatred being and enemy |
| ensign | flag/ badge |
| entreat | ask earnestly |
| epicurean | devoted to pleasure (sensuous enjoyment) |
| epistle | letter |
| epithet | adjective |
| equable | steady regular |
| equanimity | calmness of temperament |
| equipoise | equal dist. of weight equilibrium |
| erudite | learned scholarly |
| eschew | avoid |
| esoteric | absturse intended only for a small circle of |
| evince | show clearly to indicate |
| excoriation | severe criticism |
| exigency | emergency an urgent situation |
| expatiate | to roam wander freely |
| expiation | ending expiring |
| expostulate | argus earnestly to dissuade correct or protest |
| expurgate | to remove obscenity purify censor |
| exscind | to cut out cut away |
| extempore | without previous thought or preparation |
| extenuate | reduce the strength of lessen seriousness partically excuse |
| extirpate | to destroy exterminate cut out exscind |
| extricable | that can be freed |
| equivocate | try to decieve to equivocal language |
| exigency | emergency an ugent situation |