Starting with E

Strongly wanting to do something

Resulting from or showing sincere & intense conviction

The habit or state of drunkeness

Cheerful & full of energy

Unconventional and slightly strange

Level or rank in a society, organisation etc

Brilliant display or effect

Deriving ideas, style or taste from a broad and diverse range of sources

A loss of significance or power in relation or to another person or thing

Overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement

Devouring, voracious, consuming

Good appetite

Large imposing building OR a complex system of beliefs

Instruct or improve someone morally or intellectually

Bring out or develop something latent or potential

Able to be described in words

Erase from a surface or cause to disappear completely

Producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate

To bring about, effect

A man having characteristics regarded as typical of a woman

Vivacious & enthusiastic

Affected, over-refined & ineffectual

The ability to produce a desired or intended result

Reach an optimum stage of development

Action of flowing out

Insolent or impertinent behaviour

Shining forth brilliantly

Showing or expressing gratitude, pleasure or approval in an unrestrained or heartfelt manner

Asserting the equality of all people

A person's sense of self-esteem or self-importance

Self-centred

Fact of being excessively conceited or absorbed in itself

Outstandingly bad, shocking

The action of going out of or leaving a place OR a way out

A spectre or phantom

Make an amount or supply of something last longer by using it or consuming it frugally

Energy, style and enthusiasm

Weird and sinister or ghostly

A lament for the dead

A logical refutation

Evoke or draw out

Join together, merge

The skill of clear and expressive speech

To take oneself far away

To increase in length

Fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing

Make something clear, explain

Escape from or avoid

A place or state of perfect happiness

Issue or spread out from a source

Set free, especially from legal, social or political restrictions

Deprive a man of his masculinity

Make a story more interesting by adding fictitious details

To make bitter or more bitter

Conspicuously inscribe or display a design on

Serving as a symbol of a particular quality or concept

A tangible or visible form of an idea, quality or feeling

Give someone the courage or confidence to do something

The plump or fleshy part of a person's body, in particular a women's bosom

Involve someone deeply in an argument, conflict or difficult situation

Rudimentary, undeveloped

Make corrections and revisions to a text

In the process of coming into being or becoming prominent

To leave one country or region to settle in another

A person who has left their own country to settle in another, typically for political reasons.

Famous and respected within a particular sphere

A person who wields power unseen & unofficially

Having the quality of softening or soothing the skin AND attempting to avoid confrontation or anger

Salary or reward for services

Portray emotion in a theatrical manner

Expressing something forcibly and clearly

Derived from or guided by experience or experiment rather than theory

Relating to heaven

Match or surpass (a person or achievement) typically by imitation

Seeking to emulate someone or something

As a whole

In a mass or body, all together

By the way, incidentally

Having a close and harmonious relationship

On the way

To be filled with love for

Someone who is related on the mother's side

Enclose something in or as if in a capsule

Fill someone with great delight, charm

A book containing essential information on a subject

Denoting or relating to the kind of language used by ordinary people; colloquial or domestic

A portion or territory surrounded by a larger territory whose inhabitants are culturally or ethnically distinct

A speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly

To form a circle about, encircle, surround

To advance beyond proper limits

Process by which people learn the requirements of their surrounding culture or acquire values and behaviours apposite to that culture.

Cause to be loved or liked

Try hard to do or achieve something

Regularly found among particular people or in a certain area

Practise of marrying solely within a certain culture

Having an internal cause or origin

Internal

Declare one's support for

Provide with a quality, ability or asset

Endow with a quality, attribute or asset

A person believed to be possessed by the devil or a spirit

Make someone feel drained of energy or vitality

Cause or give rise to a feeling, situation or condition

Surround or encircle

Eat to excess

Absorb all the attention or interest of

Sweep over something so as to surround or cover it completely

A person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand

Difficult to interpret or understand, mysterious

Instruct or demand someone to do something

Give someone greater knowledge and understanding about a subject or situation

Make vigorous or active

To catch as in a net, entangle

State or feeling of active opposition or hostility

Lend greater dignity or nobility of character to

Feeling of listlessness & dissatisfaction arising from lack of occupation and excitement

To give intense pleasure or joy to

Improve or enhance the quality or value of

Establish or settle someone in a comfortable, safe place

Preserve (a right, tradition or idea) in a form that ensures it will be protected and respected

Envelop completely & hide from view

Catch in a trap

Enchant, fascinate

To follow in order or consequence

Involve something as a necessary or inevitable part or consequence

The realisation of potential

Friendly understanding or informal alliance between states or factions

To captivate, charm

Attract or tempt by offering pleasure or advantage

Entangle, trap

To trap or ensnare

Between ourselves, privately

Ask someone earnestly or anxiously to do something

Establish so firmly that change is very difficult or unlikely

Port, city or other centre to which goods are brought for import & export & for collection and distribution

Assign the responsibility for doing something to someone

Wind or twist together, interweave

Mention separately as if in counting, name one by one, specify as in a list

Say or pronounce clearly

Highly desired

The surrounding area or district

Messenger or representative

Things that exist or are used or enjoyed only for a short period

Lasting only for a very short time

Central point of something

A person who takes particular pleasure in fine food or drink

Characterised by or designed to display rhetorical or oratorical skill

Sudden, widespread occurrence of an undesirable phenomenon

Less distinguished follower or imitator of someone

A pithy saying or remark expressing an idea in a clever and amusing way

Inscription on a building or short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book

Section or speech at the end of a book or play that serves as a comment or conclusion to what has happened

A moment of sudden and great revelation or realisation

A letter

The man part of a play

A word used to describe a characteristic of a particular person such as Alexander the Great

A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type

Particular period of time in history or a person's life

A person after whom a discovery, invention, place etc is named or thought to be named

Calmness & composure, especially in a difficult situation

Equal or equivalent in power, effect or significance

Equal in power

Characterised by equity and fairness

Open to more than one interpretation (ambiguous) OR uncertain or questionable in nature

Use ambiguous language so as to conceal the truth or avoid committing oneself

Therefore

Morbid fear of work

Characterised by debate or argument

Erring or straying from the acceptable course or standards

Error in printing or writing

Wrong, incorrect

Made or used as a substitution, typically an inferior one, for something else OR not real or genuine

Former

Having or showing great knowledge or learning

Deliberately avoid using; abstain from

Fit to be eaten, edible

Intended to be understood only by a select few

Action of watching or catching sight of something or someone

Adopt or support a cause, belief or way of life

Quality of being lively, vivacious or witty

A feeling of pride & mutual loyalty shared by members of a group

When a witty remark comes to mind after the opportunity to use it has presented

Small cafe selling alcoholic drinks

Respect and admiration

Hungry or greedy

Delicate or refined

Person who demands good food but also which has been ethically acquired

Ruler of a nation or people

The characteristic spirit of a culture, era or community as manifested in its attitudes & aspirations

Customary polite behaviour in a society

Conducive to happiness

Science of breeding good characteristics into the population

To praise highly

Good digestion

Substitution of a mild, indirect or vague expression for a harsh, blunt or offensive one

Quality of being pleasing to the ear

Feeling or state of intense excitement and happiness

Rise in the sea levels caused by melting of ice

Pass out of sight, memory or existence

Reveal the presence of

Disembowel or remove essential content

Avoidable

Bring or recall

With the full authority of office

Because of a favour and not because of a legal obligation

Because of one's position or status

From or on behalf of one side only

With retrospective force

Make a bad situation worse

Think or speak very highly of someone, raise in rank

Irritate to a high degree

Think out, plan or devise

Criticise someone severely

Unattractive or superfluous object or feature

Show or prove that someone is free from guilt

Tending to deviate from a course of activity, digressive

Detailed discussion of a particular point in a book, usually in an appendix

To detest utterly; abhor

A person or thing serving as a typical example or appropriate model

Worthy of imitation, commendable

For example

To show or illustrate by example

To make cheery or meery

Strongly encourage or urge someone to do something

Pressing, demanding

Able to be charged or levied

Very small in size or amount

Relating to existence

Mass departure of people

Having an external cause or origin

Capable of being moved or persuaded

Unreasonably high

Introductory part of a speech or treatise

Intended to be understood by the general public

Speak or write in detail about

Convenient and practical, suitable or appropriate

Make an action or process happen sooner or be accomplished more quickly

Done with speed and efficiency

Involving or based on experience & observation

Make amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing

Capable of being explained

Analyse and develop an idea or principle in detail

Person who supports an idea or theory and tries to persuade people of its truth or benefits OR a person who demonstrates a particular skill to a high standard.

Rate of change becoming more and more rapid

Capable of and requiring explanation

Comprehensive description and explanation of a theory

Expressing strong disapproval or disagreement

Present and explain a theory or idea in detail

Government taking private assets for public benefit

To remove or obliterate completely

Remove matter thought to be objectionable or unsuitable from a text or account

To cut out of or off

Cause to protrude

Still in existence, surviving

A speech without preparation

Acting in mitigation to lessen the seriousness of guilt of an offence

Eradicate or destroy completely

Praise highly, laud

Of external origin

Extend the application of a method or conclusion to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will continue or similar methods will be applicable

Free someone from a constraint or difficulty

Coming from outside

Thrust or force out

Full of energy, excitement and cheerfulness

Show or feel triumph or elation

Triumphantly happy

Goods that are only meant to be used for a short time