Answers to "Vocabulary Quiz" quiz

1. Embellish - to decorate; to elaborate upon
2. Embroil - to involve in a quarrel
3. Emulate - to try to equal or surpass
4. Enervate - to weaken, to lessen the strength of
5. Engender - to cause, produce, to bring into being
6. Enhance - to add to; to make greater in value
7. Enigma - a puzzle; a baffling situation
8. Ephemeral - lasting only for a short time
9. Equanimity - evenness of temper
10. Equivocate - to use double in order to mislead; to be shifty; to quibble
11. Esoteric - understood only by a select few
12. Eulogy - high praise for a deceased person
13. Euphemism - use of a indirect expression in place of one that is harsh
14. Evanescent - gradually disappearing; fleeting
15. Exacerbate - to make a situation worse; to irritate
16. Exemplary - serving as a model
17. Expedient - useful; advantageous; based on self-interest (When used as a noun it is "a means of bringing about a desired result")
18. Expedite - to make easy and quick; to speed up
19. Expunge - to erase; to remove completely
20. Extol - to praise highly

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