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E earth, air, stars, and sea efficient, forcible, adequate, and potent emaciated, scraggy, meager, and attenuated endless, ceaseless, immutable, and imperishable energy, eagerness, earnestness, and enthusiasm enhance, exalt, elevate, and intensify enormous, base, prodigious, and colossal enrage, incense, infuriate, and exasperate enthusiasm, devotion, intensity, and zeal envy, discontent, deception, and ignorance equitable, reasonable, just, and honest equivocal, uncertain, cloudy, and ambiguous eradicate, extirpate, exterminate, and annihilate [extirpate = pull up by the roots] erroneous, faulty, inaccurate, and inexact eternal, unchangeable, unerring, and intelligent evil, misfortune, corruption, and disaster exacting, suspicious, irritable, and wayward exalt, dignify, elevate, and extol examination, inquiry, scrutiny, and research exceed, outdo, surpass, and transcend exceptional, uncommon, abnormal, and extraordinary excitement, distraction, diversion, and stimulation exhaustive, thorough, radical, and complete expend, dissipate, waste, and squander Each like a corpse within its grave Each moment was an iridescent bubble fresh-blown from the lips of fancy Eager-hearted as a boy Eager with the headlong zest of a hunter for the game Ears that seemed as deaf as dead man's ears Easy as a poet's dream Emotions flashed across her face like the sweep of sun-rent clouds over a quiet landscape Eternal as the skies Evanescent as bubbles [evanescent = vanishing like vapor] Every flake that fell from heaven was like an angel's kiss Every lineament was clear as in the sculptor's thought [lineament = characteristic feature] Everyone on the watch, like a falcon on its nest Every phrase is like the flash of a scimitar Exploded like a penny squib Eyes as deeply dark as are the desert skies Eyes as luminous and bright and brown as waters of a woodland river Eyes half veiled by slumberous tears, like bluest water seen through mists of rain Eyes like a very dark topaz Eyes like deep wells of compassionate gloom Eyes like limpid pools in shadow Eyes like mountain water that o'erflowing on a rock |
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A Dictionary of Useful Phrases
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Here is a collection of excellent phrases and word combinations that you can use to add spice to your writings and speech. |
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