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Princeton University - WordNet - a lexical database for the English language Category: General Date & country: 27/01/2008, USA Words: 85192

elocutionist
noun a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery

Elodea
genus Elodea noun submerged freshwater perennials

elongate
elongated adjective having notably more length than width; being long and slender; `an elongate tail tapering to a point`; `the old man`s gaunt and elongated frame`

elongated
lengthened adjective drawn out or made longer spatially; `Picasso`s elongated Don Quixote`; `lengthened skirts are fashionable this year`; `the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes`; `a prolonged black line across the page`

elongation
noun the act of lengthening something

elope
verb run away secretly with one`s beloved; `The young couple eloped and got married in Las Vegas`

elopement
noun the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)

Elopidae
family Elopidae noun tarpons and ladyfishes

Elops
genus Elops noun type genus of the Elopidae: tenpounder

eloquence
fluency noun powerful and effective language; `his eloquence attracted a large congregation`; `fluency in spoken and written English is essential`; `his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police`

eloquent
facile adjective expressing yourself readily, clearly, effectively; `able to dazzle with his facile tongue`; `silver speech`

eloquently
adverb with eloquence; `he expressed his ideas eloquently`

else
adjective other than what is under consideration or implied; `ask somebody else`; `I don`t know what else to do`; `where else can we look?`

elsewhere
adverb in or to another place; `he went elsewhere`; `look elsewhere for the answer`

elsholtzia
noun any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Elsholtzia having blue or purple flowers in one-sided spikes

eluate
noun a liquid solution that results from elution

elude
evade verb escape, either physically or mentally; `The thief eluded the police`; `This difficult idea seems to evade her`; `The event evades explanation`

Elul
Ellul noun the twelfth month of the civil year; the sixth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in August and September)

elusion
eluding noun the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)

elusive
evasive adjective skillful at eluding capture; `a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist`- David Kline

elusiveness
noun the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down; `the author`s elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness`

elute
verb wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography

elution
noun the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions

elver
noun young eel

elves
noun an acronym for emissions of light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic pulse sources; extremely bright extremely short (less than a msec) electrical flashes forming a huge ring (up to 400 km diameter) in the ionosphere

Elymus
genus Elymus noun tall tufted perennial grasses (such as lyme grass or wild rye)

Elymus caput-medusae
noun weedy rye grass having long bristling awns

elysian
adjective relating to the Elysian Fields

Elysium
Elysian Fields noun (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death

em
mut noun the square of a body of any size of type

emaciate
verb grow weak and thin or waste away physically; `She emaciated during the chemotherapy`

emanate
verb proceed or issue forth, as from a source; `Water emanates from this hole in the ground`

emanation
rise 3 procession noun (theology) the origination of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; `the emanation of the Holy Spirit`; `the rising of the Holy Ghost`; `the doctrine of the procession of the Holy Spirit from the Father and the Son`

emancipated
freed adjective freed from bondage

emancipation
noun freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent`s relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

emancipative
adjective tending to set free

emancipator
manumitter noun someone who frees others from bondage; `Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator`

emarginate
adjective having a notched tip

emarginate leaf
noun a leaf having a notch at the apex

emasculate
castrate verb remove the testicles of a male animal

emasculation
noun loss of power and masculinity

embalm
verb preserve a dead body

embalmer
noun a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives

embalmment
noun preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals

embank
verb enclose with banks, as for support or protection; `The river was embanked with a dyke`

embankment
noun a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection

embargo
trade embargo noun a government order imposing a trade barrier

embark
verb go on board

embark
verb proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; `We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer`

embarrass
abash verb cause to be embarrassed; cause to feel self-conscious

embarrassed
humiliated adjective made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; `too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street`; `humiliated that his wife had to go out to work`; `felt mortified by the comparison with her sister`

embarrassing
mortifying adjective causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; `the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles`; `it was mortifying to know he had heard every word`

embarrassingly
adverb causing embarrassment; `the great man was embarrassingly humble and self-effacing`

embarrassment
noun some event that causes someone to be embarrassed; `the outcome of the vote was an embarrassment for the liberals`

embassy
noun a diplomatic building where ambassadors live or work

embattled
battlemented adjective having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; `a crenelated molding`

embed
verb attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; `The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division`

embedded
adjective inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole; `confused by the embedded Latin quotations`; `an embedded subordinate clause`

embellished
empurpled adjective excessively elaborate or showily expressed; `a writer of empurpled literature`; `many purple passages`; `speech embellished with classical quotations`; `an over-embellished story of the fish that got away`

embellishment
embroidery noun elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail; `the mystery has been heightened by many embellishments in subsequent retellings`

ember
coal noun a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering

Ember Day
noun a day set aside for fasting and prayer

Emberiza
genus Emberiza noun Old World buntings

Emberizidae
subfamily Emberizidae noun buntings and some New World sparrows

embezzle
defalcate verb appropriate (as property entrusted to one`s care) fraudulently to one`s own use; `The accountant embezzled thousands of dollars while working for the wealthy family`

embezzled
misappropriated adjective taken for your own use in violation of a trust; `the banker absconded with embezzled funds`

embezzlement
peculation noun the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else

embezzler
defalcator noun someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for their own use

Embioptera
order Embioptera noun web spinners

Embiotocidae
family Embiotocidae noun viviparous percoid fishes comprising the surf fishes

embitter
envenom verb cause to be bitter or resentful; `These injustices embittered her even more`

embitterment
noun the state of being embittered; `the embitterment that resulted from the loss of his job never left him`

emblazon
blazon verb decorate with heraldic arms

emblem
noun special design or visual object representing a quality, type, group, etc.

emblematic
emblematical adjective serving as a visible symbol for something abstract; `a crown is emblematic of royalty`; `the spinning wheel was as symbolic of colonical Massachusetts as the codfish`

embodied
adjective expressed by; `the idea embodied in the text`

embodiment
noun giving concrete form to an abstract concept

embody
be 8 personify verb represent, as of a character on stage; `Derek Jacobi was Hamlet`

emboldened
adjective made bold or courageous

embolectomy
noun surgical removal of an embolus (usually from an artery)

embolic
adjective of or relating to an embolism or embolus

embolism
intercalation noun an insertion into a calendar

embolus
noun an abnormal particle (e.g. an air bubble or part of a clot) circulating in the blood

emboss
boss verb raise in a relief; `embossed stationary`

Embothrium
genus Embothrium noun small genus of South American evergreen shrubs or small trees with long willowy branches and flowers in flamboyant terminal clusters

embower
bower verb enclose in a bower

embowered
adjective enclosed or sheltered in or as if in a bower; `a house embowered with wysteria`

embrace
embracing noun the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)

embrace
noun a close affectionate and protective acceptance; `his willing embrace of new ideas`; `in the bosom of the family`

embrittle
verb make brittle

embroider
pad verb add details to

embroidered
adjective adorned with embroidery

embroiderer
noun someone who ornaments with needlework

embroideress
noun a woman embroiderer

embroidery
fancywork noun decorative needlework

embroidery frame
embroidery hoop noun a frame made of two hoops; used for embroidering

embroil
tangle verb force into some kind of situation, condition, or course of action; `They were swept up by the events`; `don`t drag me into this business`

embroiled
entangled adjective deeply involved especially in something complicated; `embroiled in the conflict`; `felt unwilling entangled in their affairs`

embrown
verb make brown

embryo
conceptus noun an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval life