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Please list your words in alphabetical order (include definition) beneath the letter. Make sure that you click on Save in the upper right-hand corner after you have written your information. =**__Words that begin with the letter E__**=


 * __Efficacy__:** Page 111, //Watching Torture in Prime Time//. (Noun) capacity for producing a desired result or effect; effectiveness. "But efficacy doesn't have the only vote here." [] (Estes)

__**Emulate**__- Page 87, //Seeing is Believing?// (verb) T o try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass. "...what we should aspire to or to emulate and what we should spurn." [] (Harpe) __**Entwined**__: Pg. 109 //Watching Torture in Prime Time//. (verb) to twine with, about, around, or together. " Rarely in my days has fictional television seemed so entwined with our national political life". [] (**Dupree**)

__**Esoteric-**__ Page 140, //Cuteness.(Adj.)// understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest. " // the esoteric doctrines of Pythagoras." [] ( Stephanie Perez)//

__**Esprit de corps**__- Page 139, //Cuteness//. (Noun) a sense of unity and of common interests and responsibilities, as developed among a group of persons closely associated in a task, cause, enterprise, etc. "Nothing delights us more than the strange sight of a one-year-old in a stroller meeting a barely ambulatory two-year-old, who, rather than seeking to establish spontaneous esprit de corps with his peer, breaks rank and gibbers baby talk at the bewildered object of his curiously perfunctory affections." [] (Kassie Link)

__**Eugenic**__- Page 102, //Unspeakable Conversations.// (Adjective) of or bringing about improvement in the type of offspring produced. "Likewise, the students' inquiries are abstract and fairly predictable: anencephaly perment unconsciousness, eugenic abortion." [] (Atwell)

__**Exacerbate**__-Page 102, //Unspeakable Conversations//.(Verb) to increase the severity, bitterness, or violence of (disease, ill feeling, etc.); aggravate. "... he doesn't want to exacerbate my discomfort." [] (Atwell)

__**Encomiums**__: Pg. 131 //Frames of Reference// (noun) a formal expression of high praise; eulogy. "Unless the media reframe their very reference to blackness and poversty, which is not likely to occur without intense pressure, they will have not only failed to earn the **encomiums** they've received, but worse they will have set back the quest to truly expose the problems the black poor face by pretending to have done so." [] (Ashley Gonzalez) __**Extruding:**__ 205. //In Gorging, Truth//. (Verb) to thrust out; force or press out. "The brothers eventually took over the Nathan's account and formed the Federation in 1997 with the goal of extruding that single hot dog contest into a gluttonous empire."