Egregious meaning: exceptionally bad or offensive
Egregious means extremely bad, shocking, or offensive, especially because the action or mistake is far beyond what people can accept.
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Elicit and illicit: meaning, spelling, and use
Elicit means to draw out a response or information. Illicit means illegal or forbidden.
Ellipsis and substitution: avoiding repetition
Use one or ones for a repeated countable noun, do or does for a repeated action, and so after verbs such as think or hope when it refers to a whole earlier statement. Use ellipsis when the missing words are obvious from the nearby sentence.
Elusive: meanings and examples
Elusive describes a person, thing, answer, or goal that's hard to find, catch, or achieve. The clue is a target that stays out of reach after effort.
Empathy: meaning and how it differs from sympathy
Empathy means understanding or sharing another person’s feelings and point of view. Sympathy means concern or sorrow for their difficulty.
Empirical: meaning and examples in English
Empirical means based on observation, experience, or measured evidence rather than only on ideas or theory.
English for job interviews
In an English job interview, give a direct answer first, support it with a specific example, and connect that example to the role. Use polite questions to learn about the work and the team.
English language for meetings
Use a short phrase for the meeting task, then add the detail that the group needs to discuss, decide, or do.
English verb patterns: verbs followed by objects and clauses
After a main verb, choose the form that belongs to that verb. Decide and hope are often followed by to plus a base verb. Enjoy and avoid are followed by an -ing form. Ask and tell can take an object plus to plus a base verb. Say, think, and wonder can introduce a clause.
Epiphany meaning: a sudden important realization
An epiphany is a moment when you suddenly understand something important in a new way.
Esoteric meaning: describe specialised knowledge clearly
Use esoteric for specialised material that is understood by relatively few people because it needs particular knowledge or experience. Use technical when something belongs to a field, and secret when people are intentionally prevented from knowing it.
Ethereal meaning: delicate, light, and almost unreal
Ethereal means delicate and light in a way that seems almost unreal or from another world.