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Today's words

1 enquiry / inquiry

It is the largest enquiry ever of its kind.

2 endeavour

Please make every endeavour to arrive on time.

3 endorse

I wholeheartedly endorse his remarks.

4 endow

It can endow his daily experience with a kind of romance.

5 entail

What kind of responsibilities does that job entail?

6 endurance

The exercise obviously will improve strength and endurance.

7 endure

He can't endure being defeated.

8 enemy

They retreated before the enemy.

9 entertain

I don't like to entertain guests anymore.

10 energetic

He was hardworking and energetic.

11 entertainment

It was typical family entertainment.

12 energy

She's always full of energy.

13 Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm is very catching.

14 enforce

The legislation will be difficult to enforce.

15 enthusiastic

He is an enthusiastic skier.

16 engage

They never learned skills to engage the attention of the others.

17 engagement

The engagement was a bad mistake.

18 entrance

This entrance is in constant use.

19 entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is more than just a risk taker. He is a visionary.

20 envelope

She opened the perfumed envelope.

21 enlighten

It was an elite that believed its task was to enlighten the multitude.

22 envisage

I can't envisage her coping with this job.

23 enormous

The problems facing the President are enormous.

24 envy

I envy you having such a close family.

25 epic

The film is long and dramatic but does not quite earn the epithet 'epic'.

26 enquire / inquire

I called the station to enquire about train times.

27 epidemic

Today, doctors are fearing a worldwide epidemic.

28 episode

The final episode will be shown next Sunday.

29 essay

Your essay needs (a) structure.

30 Epoch

The Pleistocene Epoch was an ice age.

31 essence

The essence of dialectical thought is division.

32 essential

Let's just recapitulate the essential points.

33 equality

We Chinese people have persistently urged the equality of nations, big or small.

34 equation

X and Y in the equation are both unknowns.

35 estate

He made a fortune in real estate.

36 equator

GPS operates best near the equator.

37 esteem

You need to build your self-esteem.

38 estimate

My estimate was bang on target.

39 eternal

It is an eternal concept.

40 equity

They took equity out of their homes.

41 ethic

I try to transfer that work ethic and demonstrate it to others.

42 equivalent

Zip disks could be used to store the equivalent of three music CDs.

43 ethnic

There is a crying need for more magistrates from the ethnic minority communities.

44 era

It's the end of an era.

45 evacuate

Remember that hearing a siren or tone alert radio does not mean you should evacuate

46 eradicate

Surely we will aim to finally eradicate disease and poverty.

47 evade

She is trying to evade all responsibility for her behaviour.

48 erase

They are desperate to erase the memory of that last defeat.

49 evaluate

The market situation is difficult to evaluate.

50 erect

They plan to erect an apartment house on that property.

51 evaporate

Blasting cold air over it makes the water evaporate.

52 erode

Then over many more years, the Phosphorus-rich rocks of the new land begin to erode and the cycle continues.

53 erosion

Soil erosion was mitigated by the planting of trees.

54 erroneous

Proper measures were taken as soon as the erroneous ideas cropped up.

55 error

Ash began to erupt from the crater.

56 eventually

The camera eventually tracked away.

57 escalate

We do not want to escalate the war.

58 escape

They made no attempt to escape.

59 escort

Police were called to escort her off the premises.

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