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| edify | enlighten, instruct in religious matters The priest's goal was to ___the students about the life of Jesus. |
| efface | erase, rub away After 200 years, the name on the tombstone was ___so that you could barely read it. |
| effusion | pouring forth When the child was missing, there was an ___of people willing to help search. |
| egalitarian | believes in social and economic equality of all An ____society leaves people lazy. |
| egocentric | selfish, loves yourself He was so ____that he only talked about himself. |
| egregious | extremely bad, The ___mother let her baby play in the street. |
| elicit | seek, bring out, call forth The reporter tried to ___a story from the murderer. |
| elliptical | MANY MEANINGS: oval; missing a word; obscure - The earth's orbit is ___. Leaving out a paragraph, the story was ___ and we couldn't unstand it. |
| elusive | hard to pin down Wanting an explanation for his grade, the student found that his teacher was ___and could never find him. |
| emigrate | leave a country permanently The Jewish people ____to the USA, never to return to Germany again. |
| fastidious | meticulous, demanding Miss Erica is a ____housekeeper, but my mom keeps her house like a dog house. |
| fatalist | believes future is pre-determined Knowing we all die someday, the man was a ____an never worried about his disease, he knew we all died some day. |
| fatuous | foolish, silly, idiotic The boys were so ____around the pretty girl, they made fools of themselves. |
| fauna | animals We saw no ____in the woods, but we did see their footprints in the mood. |
| fecund | fertile, productive The___rabbit gave birth to hundres of baby rabbis in her lifetime. |
| felicity | happiness, skillfulness Shakespear wrote with great ____. |
| fervor | great eagerness, zest The fans rushed the gate in their __to get to the game. |
| fetter | to restrain, hamper The umpire was ___in his bad call because of his lack of understanding of the rules. |
| fidelity | faithfulness, loyalty The soldiers show their ____to the U.S.A. |
| figurative | express something in terms for something else Saying it rained cats and dogs is a _____way of speaking. |
