Vocabulary Words Starting With E

54 GRE, SAT, IELTS, and TOEFL vocabulary words beginning with E.

Ebullient medium
adjective

Overflowing with enthusiasm, energy, and high spirits.

Eccentric easy
adjective

Behaving in an unconventional or slightly odd way that departs from common habits.

Eclectic easy
adjective

Made up of a wide variety of styles, ideas, or sources combined together.

Edify hard
verb

To instruct or improve someone, especially in a moral or intellectual sense.

Effrontery hard
noun

Shocking boldness or disrespectful nerve.

Effusive medium
adjective

Expressing feelings, especially gratitude or enthusiasm, in an unrestrained and overflowing way.

Egregious medium
adjective

Shockingly and obviously bad or wrong.

Elaborate easy
verb

To explain or describe something in greater detail.

Elated easy
adjective

Filled with great happiness and excitement.

Elegy medium
noun

A mournful poem or song written as a tribute to someone who has died.

Elicit easy
verb

To draw out a response, answer, or reaction from someone.

Eloquent medium
adjective

Fluent and persuasive in speaking or writing.

Elucidate medium
verb

To make something clear by explaining it in detail.

Elusive medium
adjective

Hard to catch, find, achieve, or pin down clearly.

Embark medium
verb

To begin a new project, journey, or activity, especially one that will take a long time.

Embellish medium
verb

To make something more attractive or interesting by adding extra, sometimes exaggerated, details.

Eminent medium
adjective

Well-known and highly respected within a particular field.

Emollient hard
adjective

Having a softening or soothing effect, especially on skin or on tension.

Empirical medium
adjective

Based on observation or experiment rather than theory.

Emulate medium
verb

To try to match or surpass someone by imitating their admirable qualities or achievements.

Encomium hard
noun

A formal expression of high praise.

Encompass medium
verb

To include a wide range of things as parts of a whole.

Endeavor medium
verb

To try hard to achieve or accomplish something difficult.

Endorse easy
verb

To publicly state approval or support for someone or something.

Enervate hard
verb

To drain someone of energy, vitality, or strength.

Enhance easy
verb

To improve the quality, value, or attractiveness of something.

Enigma hard
noun

Something or someone puzzling and difficult to fully understand.

Enigmatic easy
adjective

Mysterious and difficult to interpret or fully understand.

Entail medium
verb

To involve or require something as a necessary part or consequence.

Envisage hard
verb

To imagine or picture something in your mind as a future possibility.

Ephemeral medium
adjective

Lasting for a very short time.

Equanimity hard
noun

A state of mental calmness and composure, especially under pressure or stress.

Equitable medium
adjective

Fair to everyone involved, especially in how resources or opportunities are shared.

Equivalent easy
adjective

Equal in value, meaning, or importance to something else.

Equivocate medium
verb

To use vague or ambiguous language deliberately in order to avoid committing to a clear position.

Eradicate medium
verb

To completely eliminate something, especially something harmful.

Erode medium
verb

To gradually wear away or destroy something over a long period of time.

Erratic medium
adjective

Not following a regular or predictable pattern; irregular and unreliable in behavior.

Erudite medium
adjective

Showing deep, extensive knowledge gained from serious study and reading.

Escalate easy
verb

To become or make something rapidly increase in size, intensity, or seriousness.

Esoteric medium
adjective

Understood by or intended for only a small group with specialized knowledge.

Espouse hard
verb

To adopt and publicly support a particular belief, cause, or way of living.

Euphoric easy
adjective

Feeling an intense sense of happiness and excitement, often overwhelming.

Evoke medium
verb

To bring a feeling, memory, or image into someone's mind.

Exacerbate hard
verb

To make an already bad or difficult situation even worse.

Exemplary easy
adjective

Serving as an outstanding example of excellent behavior or quality.

Exemplify easy
verb

To be a typical example of something, or to illustrate a point using an example.

Exhaustive medium
adjective

Thorough and complete, covering every possible detail so that nothing relevant is left out.

Exonerate medium
verb

To officially clear someone of blame or wrongdoing after they were accused.

Expedite medium
verb

To make a process happen more quickly.

Explicit medium
adjective

Stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.

Extol medium
verb

To praise someone or something enthusiastically and at length.

Extraneous hard
adjective

Not essential or directly related to the main subject; irrelevant.

Extrapolate hard
verb

To estimate or predict unknown information by extending known facts or patterns into a new situation.