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Dictionary: embodiment
DEFINITION: (noun) A new personification of a familiar idea.

Dictionary: exiguity
DEFINITION: (noun) The quality or condition of being scanty or meager.

Dictionary: elfin
DEFINITION: (adjective) Having a magical quality or charm; fairylike.

Dictionary: emanation
DEFINITION: (noun) Something that issues from a source.

Dictionary: entreaty
DEFINITION: (noun) An earnest request or petition; a plea.

Dictionary: extralegal
DEFINITION: (adjective) Not permitted or governed by law.

Dictionary: ethereal
DEFINITION: (adjective) Characterized by unusual lightness and delicacy.

Dictionary: exothermic
DEFINITION: (adjective) Releasing heat.

Dictionary: excursive
DEFINITION: (adjective) Of, given to, characterized by, or having the nature of digression.

Dictionary: ecesis
DEFINITION: (noun) The successful establishment of a plant or animal species in a habitat.

Dictionary: exigent
DEFINITION: (adjective) Requiring much effort or expense; demanding attention.

Dictionary: effervescent
DEFINITION: (adjective) Marked by high spirits or excitement.

Dictionary: exacta
DEFINITION: (noun) A method of betting, as on a horserace, in which the bettor must correctly pick those finishing in the first and second places in precisely that sequence.

Dictionary: eulogy
DEFINITION: (noun) A laudatory speech or written tribute, especially one praising someone who has died.

Dictionary: erratum
DEFINITION: (noun) An error in printing or writing, especially such an error noted in a list of corrections and bound into a book.

Dictionary: effigy
DEFINITION: (noun) A likeness or image, especially of a person.

Dictionary: emetic
DEFINITION: (noun) An agent that causes vomiting.

Dictionary: edification
DEFINITION: (noun) Intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement; enlightenment.

Dictionary: extirpate
DEFINITION: (verb) To destroy totally; exterminate.

Dictionary: equivocate
DEFINITION: (verb) To be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information.