Pair of Words: Meaning and Sentence from Epic to Envelop, Envelope
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List of Pair of Words: E
Epic
Meaning: An epic is a story or long poem telling the tale of a fictional or historical hero.
Sentence: Epic tale that favors the bizarre.
Epoch
Meaning: a period of time considered in terms of noteworthy and characteristic events, developments, persons, etc.
Sentence: Epoch of the final decline of democracy.
Eue
Meaning: Unable to find this word in dictionaries
Sentence: An eue passed in his life which made him dull for a year.
Elusive
Meaning: difficult to describe, find, achieve or remember
Sentence: The answers to these questions remain as elusive as ever.
Emigrant
Meaning: a person who emigrates
Sentence: There was only a small number of emigrants on board.
Emigrate
Meaning: to leave a country permanently and go to live in another one
Sentence: Millions of Germans emigrated from Europe to America in the nineteenth century.
Envy
Meaning: to wish that you had something that another person has
Sentence: I envy her ability to talk to people she՚s never met before.
Effluence
Meaning: a thing that flows out or forth
Sentence: How can Reef Entertainment justify releasing this effluence on the general public?
Euphemistic
Meaning: a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word Sentence: ‘Senior citizen’ is a euphemism for ‘old person’ .
Euphuistic
Meaning: Affected elegance of language. Sentence: Euphuistic style has been used in many of his writings.
Excite
Meaning: to make someone have strong feelings of happiness and enthusiasm Sentence: Nothing about my life excites me at present.
Exceptional
Meaning: much greater than usual, especially in skill, intelligence, quality, etc. Sentence: The Company has shown exceptional growth over the past two years.
Exceptionable
Meaning: offensive or upsetting
Sentence: This action is normally only taken in exceptionable circumstances.
Essay
Meaning: attempt/a short piece of writing on a particular subject
Sentence: The Diploma is assessed by three essays of 3,000 words each.
Envelop
Meaning: to cover or surround something completely
Sentence: The graveyard looked ghostly, enveloped in mist.
Envelope
Meaning: a flat, usually square or rectangular, paper container for a letter Sentence: A stamped, addressed envelope should be enclosed for reply.