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Eager: 1. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy 2. Marked by active interest and enthusiasm

Eagerly: 1. With eagerness; in an eager manner

Effective: 1. Producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect 2. Able to accomplish a purpose; functioning effectively 3. Works well as a means or remedy 4. Exerting force or influence 5. Existing in fact; not theoretical; real

Effectiveness: 1. The power to be effective 2. Capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects

Efficiency: 1. Skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort

Effort: 1. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something 2. Use of physical or mental energy; hard work 3. A notable achievement 4. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end

Ego: 1. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others 2. Your consciousness of your own identity 3. (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind

Egocentric: 1. A self-centered person with little regard for others 2. Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs

Elaborate: 1. Elaborate or expatiate upon; give details 2. Produce by labor 3. Make more complex, intricate, or richer 4. Work out in detail 5. Marked by complexity and richness of detail 6. Developed or executed with care and in minute detail

Elated: 1. Fill with high spirits; fill with optimism 2. Exultantly proud and joyful; in high spirits 3. Full of high-spirited delight 4. Full of high-spirited delight

Embark: 1. Go on board; used of ships or aircraft 2. Set out on (an enterprise, subject of study, etc.) 3. Proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers

Embarrassed: Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious 2. Caused to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable 3. Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride

Embarrassment: 1. The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public 2. Extreme excess

Embodied: 1. Expressed by

Eminent: 1. (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation 2. Standing above others in quality or position 3. Having achieved eminence 4. Of imposing height; especially standing out above others

Emotion: 1. Any strong feeling

Emotional Balance: 1. Can mean finding and maintain a positive outlook on life, regardless of what may be happening around us. To some, it might mean an understanding of our emotions that allows us to respond, not react, to our feelings. It can mean that we experience our feelings as intensely as we can while also moderating their excessive expression. (Just For Today Pg.270)

Emotional: 1. Of persons; excessively affected by emotion

Empathy: 1. Understanding and entering into another's feelings 2. That wordless language of recognition, belief and faith (Basic Text Pg.85) 2. A wordless language with its roots in recognition, belief, and faith. (Just For Today Pg.337)

Emphasis: 1. Special importance or significance 2. Intensity or forcefulness of expression 3. Special and significant stress by means of position or repetition e.g. 4. The relative prominence of a syllable (especially with regard to stress or pitch)

Emptiness: 1. The state of containing nothing 2. Having an empty stomach 3. An empty area or space 4. The quality of being valueless or futile

Encourage: 1. Contribute to the progress or growth of 2. Inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to

Encouragement: 1. The expression of approval and support 2. The act of giving hope or support to someone 3. The feeling of being encouraged

Endanger: 1. Pose a threat to; present a danger to 2. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position

Endangered : 1. in imminent danger of extinction

Endeavor: 1. A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) 2. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something 3. Attempt by employing effort

Endorse: 1. Give support or one's blessing to 2. Guarantee as meeting a certain standard 3. Be behind; support or vote for

Endure: 1. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant 2. Be subjected to

Enemies: 1. An opposing military force 2. Any hostile group of people 2. A personal enemy

Energetic: 1. Possessing or exerting or displaying energy 2. Working hard to promote an enterprise

Engendered: 1. Call forth 2. Make children

Enhance: 1. Increase 2. Make better or more attractive

Enrich: 1. Make richer 2. Make rich or richer

Ensure: 1. Make certain of 2. Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

Enterprise: 1. A purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness) 2. An organization created for business ventures 3. Readiness to embark on bold new ventures

Enthusiasm: 1. A feeling of excitement 2. A lively interest

Entirely Ready: 1. Is to reach a spiritual state where we are not just aware of our defects; not just tired of them; not just confident that the God of our understanding will remove what should go-But all these things. (Step Working Guides Pg.55) 2. Means we change (Just For Today Pg.136)

Entirely: 1. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent 2. Without any others being included or involved

Entirely: 1. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent 2. Without any others being included or involved

Envy: 1. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another 2. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Equal: 1. Be identical or equivalent to 2. Be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability" 3. Make uniform

Esoteric: 1. Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle

Espouses: 1. Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans 2. Take in marriage 3. Take up the cause or ideology of (beliefs, tasks, etc.)

Essential: 1. Basic and fundamental 2. Of the greatest importance 3. Absolutely required and

Established: 1. Set up or found 2. Set up or lay the groundwork for 3. Establish the validity of something 4. Institute, enact, or establish 5. Bring about 6. Use as a basis for; found on 7. Brought about or set up or accepted; especially long established 8. Settled securely and unconditionally 9. Conforming with accepted standards 10. Shown to be valid beyond a reasonable doubt 11. Introduced from another region and persisting without cultivation

Euphoria: 1. A feeling of great (usually exaggerated) elation

Eventually: 1. Within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time 2. After a long period of time or an especially long delay

Evidence: 1. Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief 2. An indication that makes something evident 3. (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved 4. Provide evidence for; stand as proof of 5. Provide evidence for 6. Reveal

Evident: 1. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses 2. Capable of being seen or noticed

Evolution: 1. A process in which something passes by degrees to a more advanced or mature stage 2. The sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms

Evolve: 1. Work out; as of a theory or an idea 2. Undergo an evolution 3. Come up with 4. Gradually acquire new traits or characteristics

Exact: 1. Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact 2. Exact in

Exaggerate: 1. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth 2. Do something to an excessive degree

Exaggerated: 1. Represented as greater than is true or reasonable 2. Enlarged to an abnormal degree 3. Enlarged beyond truth or reasonableness

Examine: 1. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning 2. Observe carefully or inspect 3. Question or examine thoroughly and closely 4. Question closely

Except: 1. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted

Exert: 1. Put to use 2. Of power or authority 3. Make a great effort at a mental or physical task

Exhaust: 1. Wear out completely 2. Use up, as of resources or materials 3. Deplete 4. Use up the whole supply of

Exhilarating: 1. Fill with sublime emotion; tickle pink(exhilarate is obsolete in this usage) 2. Making lively and cheerful 3. Making lively and joyful

Exhort: 1. Urge on or encourage esp. by shouts 2. Force or impel in an indicated direction

Exist 1. Stay alive; survive 2. Have an existence, be extant

Existence: 1. The state or fact of existing 2. Everything that exists anywhere

Existing: 1. Having existence or being or actuality 2. Existing in something specified 3. Presently existing

Expectation: 1. Belief about (or mental picture of) the future 2. Wishing with confidence of fulfillment 3. The feeling that something is about to happen

Expense: 1. Amounts paid for goods and services that may be currently tax deductible (as opposed to capital expenditures) 2. A detriment or sacrifice 3. Money spent to perform work and usually reimbursed by an employer

Experience: 1. The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities 2. The content of direct observation or participation in an event 3. Go or live through 4. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations 5. Undergo an emotional sensation

Expertise: 1. Skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge

Exposure: 1. The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience 2. The disclosure of something secret 3. The state of being vulnerable

Expressed: 1. Skillfulness by virtue of possessing special knowledge

Extend: 1. Extend in scope or range or area 2. Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point 3. Span an interval of distance, space or time 4. Make available; provide 5. Extend out and forward, as of a limb 6. Offer verbally 7. Expand the influence of 8. Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer 9. Use to the utmost; exert vigorously or to full capacity 10. Prolong the time allowed for payment of

Extension: 1. A mutually agreed delay in the date set for the completion of a job or payment of a debt 2. Act of expanding in scope; making more widely available 3. The spreading of something (a belief or practice) into new regions 4. An educational opportunity provided by colleges and universities to people who not enrolled as regular students 5. Act of stretching or straightening out a flexed limb 6. Amount or degree or range to which something extends 7. An addition to the length of something

Extensive: 1. Large in extent or range 2. Having broad range or effect 3. Large in number or quantity 4. Great in range or scope 5. Of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor

External: 1. Outward features 2. Outward features 3. Happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface 4. Purely outward or superficial

Extravagant: 1. Unrestrained in especially feelings 2. Recklessly wasteful

Extreme: 1. The furthest or highest degree of something 2. Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity 3. Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree

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