Comprehensive English Vocabulary Reference

Essential Vocabulary List

• Ebb: To diminish.
• Ecclesiastical: Having to do with the church.
• Eclipse: To block the light of.
• Ecosystem: A community of organisms.
• Edict: An official decree.
• Edifice: A big, imposing building.
• Effectual: Effective.
• Efficacy: Effectiveness.
• Effigy: A likeness of a person.
• Elation: A feeling of great joy.
• Electorate: The voters.
• Elegy: A mournful poem or music.
• Elite: The best selected group.
• Elocution: The art of public speaking.
• Emaciate: To make extremely thin through starvation or illness.
• Emanate: To come forth.
• Emancipate: To liberate.
• Embargo: A government suspending foreign trade.
• Embellish: To adorn.
• Embody: To personify.
• Embroil: To involve in conflict.
• Embryonic: Undeveloped.
• Emissary: A messenger sent to represent another.
• Empathy: Identification with the feelings of another.
• Empower: To give power or authority to.
• Endear: To make dear.
• Engaging: Charming.
• Enmity: Deep hatred.
• Ennui: Boredom.
• Ensue: To follow immediately afterward.
• Entail: To have as a necessary consequence.
• Entity: Something that exists.
• Entreat: To ask earnestly.
• Entrepreneur: An independent business person.
• Enumerate: To list.
• Envision: To imagine.
• Epicure: A person with refined taste in wine and food.
• Epilogue: An afterword.
• Epoch: A distinctive period of time.
• Equestrian: Having to do with horseback riding.
• Estimable: Worthy of admiration.
• Estrange: To make unfriendly.
• Ethics: Moral standards governing behavior.
• Eulogy: A spoken or written tribute to a person.
• Evince: To demonstrate convincingly.
• Evoke: To awaken.
• Excise: To remove by cutting.
• Exempt: Excused.
• Exhume: To unbury.
• Exodus: A mass departure or journey away.
• Exorbitant: Excessively costly.
• Expiate: To atone for.
• Explicate: To make a detailed explanation of the meaning of.
• Exposition: Explanation, a large public exhibition.
• Expostulate: To reason with someone to warn.
• Expunge: To erase.
• Exquisite: Extraordinarily fine or beautiful.
• Extant: Still in existence.
• Extort: To obtain through force.
• Extremity: The outermost point or edge.
• Exuberant: Highly joyous or enthusiastic.
• Anonymous: Author unknown (e.g., of a work).
• Sluggard: A lazy person.
• Theology: The study of religious faith and practice.
• Surmise: To guess, conjecture, or infer.