Lesson 18   -   edHelper.com
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Word List
eclipse
ecstasy
edifice
effervescent
eject
element
elementary
elicit
eloquent
elucidate
elusive
embark
embellish
embezzle
embody
emission
emulate
enact
encompass
encore
encounter
endanger
endeavor
endow
engender
 
 


Matching

Match each definition with a word.

      embellish 1. to improve by, or as though by, decorations; decorate; garnish; beautify; prank
___________________________ 2. hard to define or express; elusory; evasive
___________________________ 3. to attempt; try; seek
___________________________ 4. to put or take aboard a ship or aircraft.
___________________________ 5. to meet with or contend against (difficulties, opposition, etc.); confront; face; affront
___________________________ 6. to produce, cause, or give rise to; provoke; induce
___________________________ 7. to draw or bring out or forth; educe; evoke; extract
___________________________ 8. to try to be the same as or better than (another person), esp. by imitating; rivalize
___________________________ 9. to expose to danger; imperil; jeopardy
___________________________ 10. to provide with a body; incarnate; make corporeal; manifest; personify; personalize
___________________________ 11. rapturous delight; rapture; heaven; seventh
___________________________ 12. a compatible environment; essential; part
___________________________ 13. to make clear; clarify or explain; illustrate; illuminate
___________________________ 14. something that is emitted; discharge; emanation.
___________________________ 15. to take by fraud for one's own use (money or property entrusted to one's care); misappropriate
___________________________ 16. a building, esp. a large or impressive structure; hut; pile
___________________________ 17. Astron. the obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun(lunar eclipse)or the obscuration of the light of the sun by the intervention of the moon between it and a point on the earth(solar eclipse).a similar phenomenon with respect to any other planet and either its satellite or the sun.the partial or complete interception of the light of one component of a binary star by the other; adumbrate; bedim
___________________________ 18. to surround or enclose; circle
___________________________ 19. to give a permanent income, source of income, or property to; crown; dower
___________________________ 20. having or exercising the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech; smooth-spoken; vocal
___________________________ 21. effervescing; bubbling; exuberant
___________________________ 22. simple; rudimentary; beginning
___________________________ 23. once more; again (as a call by an audience for a continuation of a performance).
___________________________ 24. to dismiss, as from office or occupancy; extrude; chuck; chase
___________________________ 25. to make into an act or statute; establish