each = (See 3-14).

eager = You want to do something very much.

ear = (See 12-25).

early =

• Something happens before you expect it to happen.
• A short time after something starts, but a long time before it stops.

earn =

• Someone gives you money because you do some work they want.
• You have more money now than before, because you did something someone wanted and they gave you money because of this.
• You do things that are good for other people, and because of this, people will feel good if something happens that is good for you.

earth =

• This is the one very big place where all people live. There are many plants and animals in this place. Much water covers the ground in some parts of this place.
• The ground.

east = Towards the place you can look at to see the sun each day, a short time after the time each day when you cannot see the sun.

eastern = In a place towards the east.

easy, easily = (See 3-30).

eat, ate, eaten = (See 4-29).

economic = Thinking about many people who buy things, who make things that other people buy, and who do work that someone gives them money to do.

edge =

• The parts of something that are far from its centre more than all other parts.
• A long narrow part of a surface near to the side of this surface like this: There are parts of this surface on one side of this narrow part, but not on the other side.
• The thin part of something that you can use to cut other things.

educate = Help someone learn something important.

educated = Knowing many things that you learned for some time.

education = The things that someone does to help people learn something.

effect = What happens or what is true or what you feel because of some other thing that happens.

effective = This causes what you wanted to happen.

effort =

• The things you think or do to try to cause something to happen.
• Trying very much to make something happen.

egg = (See 9-12).

eight = (See 8-10).

eighth =

• One more after seven others.
• One of eight parts of one thing. Each part is the same.

either =

• This one, if not this other one.
• These two.

elastic = Something solid that can change shape when you pull parts of it. When you pull one end of it towards one side and the other end towards the other side, this thing becomes more long. But when you stop holding and pulling the ends, this thing becomes the same shape and the same length as it was before.

elbow = There are three very long bones inside each of your arms, and this is where all three of these bones are connected.

elect =

• When a group chooses someone or something like this: Each person says what they want, and the group chooses the person or thing that more people want.
• Choose to do something.

election = When people elect someone to be part of the government or to lead a group.

electric = This thing uses electricity.

electricity = (See 9-16).

electronic = This thing uses electricity. People make it using many very small parts. These small parts each control electricity that moves through them.

elephant = Very big animal that has four legs and does not eat other animals. This animal has a very long nose. This animal can breathe through its nose and can use it to hold and carry things.

else =

• (See 1-04).
• If not.

embarrass = Some people saw or heard you do something that you did not want them to know about. Now you feel bad when you think this: Maybe these people think something bad about you because of what they saw or heard you do.

embarrassing = These things embarrass you.

emotion = When the things you are thinking cause you to feel something, like when you feel happy or sad or angry.

emphasize = Saying or doing something more to try to make someone think this one thing is more important than some others.

employ =

• You give money to someone because they do some work you want them to do.
• Use.

employer = One of the people or businesses that employ people.

employment = When someone gives you money because you do some work they want you to do.

empty =

• This thing can contain other things, but there are not things inside it now.
• You cause all the things inside something to move out.

enclose = Cause something to be inside another thing.

enclosure =

• Something made around all the things in a place.
• Something in a place inside another thing.

encourage = When someone says something to you that helps you decide to do something more, because they make you feel that you can do this and that this is good to do.

encouragement = Things that encourage someone.

end =

• (See 5-17).
• Stop.
• When this stops.
• What happens because of this.

enemy = This is someone who wants to hurt you and tries to cause things to happen that are bad for you. This is someone who feels angry when good things happen to you and happy when bad things happen to you.

energy = Electricity and other things that can cause things to change or move.

engine = The part of a machine that causes the other parts to move.

engineer =

• Someone who does this kind of work: This person plans and makes machines, buildings and other big things.
• Someone who does this kind of work: This person controls big vehicles and machines.

English = These are the words and rules that many people use to make sentences when they say things in many places inside many countries. In other places and countries, there are different words and rules that people use.

enjoy = (See 5-31).

enjoyable = This is something you enjoy.

enjoyment = What you feel when you enjoy something.

enough =

• You do not need more to do this.
• More is not needed to cause this to happen.

enter =

• Move into a place.
• Become part of a group of people that does some kind of work.
• Start doing something.
• Write something in a place.

entertain = Do something that people enjoy seeing or hearing.

entertainment = Things that entertain people.

entrance = Small place you can move through to move into a place.

envelope = This is a flat container made using paper. People use it like this: A person writes on the surface of a piece of paper and puts it inside this flat container where it cannot be seen. Then someone carries this container and gives it to another person who reads the paper inside.

environment =

• All the people and things that are in the places where you live.
• The air, water and ground in a place where plants and animals live.

equal =

• The same as.
• These two amounts are the same.
• This thing is not more than or less than this other thing.
• You can say something is true about this one, the same as you can say about the other.

equality = When two things are equal.

equipment = The machines and clothing and other things you need to use when you do a kind of work or make a kind of thing.

escape = For some time before now, someone or something caused you to be in a place and did not allow you to move to another place. You did not want to be in this place, and for some time you could not move out of this place. But now you can move out, and you move to another place.

especially =

• You can say this about some others, but you say this very much more about these.
• Very much more than others.

establish =

• You start doing something in a place, and you expect other people to do the same thing in this place for a long time after this.
• You cause people to know something is true.

establishment =

• Business that someone starts.
• When you establish something.

even =

• Flat.
• Two or more things are the same.
• The number of things is like this: You can put these things into two groups where the number of things inside each group is the same.
• Maybe more than you expect.

evening = The time each day a short time before most people in this place start sleeping.

event = Something that happens at a time.

ever =

• At some time.
• At all times.
• There is a time when this is true.

every =

• All of these.
• Each of these.

everybody = All people.

everyone = All people.

everything =

• Each thing.
• All things.

everywhere = In all places.

evil = Very bad.

exact, exactly =

• Not more than this and not less.
• Not different.
• Very much the same as.
• Each part of what you think about this is true.
• You are careful to cause each part of this to be very much the same as what someone wants.
• You carefully choose what you say about something, because you want each thing that someone thinks about this to be the same as what you know is true.

examination = When you examine someone or something.

examine =

• You look at many parts of something for some time because you want to know much about this thing.
• You want to know what someone knows about something. You tell them you want them to say what they know about this and tell you if something is true or not.

example =

• If you see this one thing, you can know much about these other things, because many of these are like the one you see.
• Someone shows you this one thing, because they want you to make or do something like it.

excellent = Very good.

except =

• These others, but not this one.
• If not.

exchange = A person gives something to you, and because of this, you give something to this person.

excite = Causing someone to feel excited.

excited = You are thinking and feeling very much, because you think maybe something good is happening now or will happen a short time after now, and you very much want this to happen.

exciting = Making you feel excited.

excuse =

• After someone does something that is bad for you, you tell them you are not angry and you do not feel they need to do something good for you now.
• After you do something that is bad for someone, you say something caused you to do this, because you do not want them to be angry.
• You tell someone they do not need to do something that they were expected to do.

exercise =

• You do something many times now, because you want to be able to do this well at a time after this.
• You can do something and you do it now.

exist = (See 3-15).

existence = When something exist.

expect = (See 4-17).

expensive = You need much money to buy this.

experience =

• What you know and can do now, because you did things like this many times before.
• Something that happens to you that you feel and think about.

explain = (See 11-24).

explanation = What someone says when they carefully tell you something you did not know about a thing, or what something means, or what caused something to happen.

explode =

• (See 10-12).
• Quickly become more.

explosion = When something explodes.

explosive = This can cause something to explode.

express = You say or do something that shows someone what you feel.

expression =

• When you say or do something that shows someone what you feel.
• When your eyes and mouth show someone what you feel.
• Group of several words that people often use because they mean something people often want to say.

extreme, extremely =

• Very.
• Very much.
• There is not another that is more than this.

eye = (See 4-11).

eyelid = This is a small thin part of the surface of your head near each eye. It can move down and cover the eye, preventing light moving into your eye.