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Usage

• elucidate

  If you elucidate something, you make it easier to understand by giving more relevant information.

• emollient

  An emollient substance soothes your skin and provides moisture.

• ebullient

  Someone who is ebullient is filled with enthusiasm, very happy, and extremely excited about something.

• evanescent

  Something that is evanescent lasts for only a short time before disappearing from sight or memory.

• emaciated

  A person or animal that is emaciated is extremely thin because of a serious illness or lack of food.

• evince

  If you evince particular feelings, qualities, or attitudes, you show them, often clearly.

• espouse

  If you espouse an idea, principle, or belief, you support it wholeheartedly.

• elude

  If a fact or idea eludes you, you cannot remember or understand it; if you elude someone, you manage to escape or hide from them.

• inevitable

  Something that is inevitable will certainly occur because it cannot be avoided.

• emeritus

  The adjective emeritus refers to a leader or professional who is retired—and often who gave distinguished service—and still retains their title, such as a professor or president.

• evidence

  Pieces of evidence are those things or signs that back up or prove what someone says.