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Usage

• empirical

  Empirical evidence or study is based on real experience or scientific experiments rather than on unproven theories.

• embellish

  If you embellish something, you make it more beautiful by decorating it.

• empathy

  Empathy is the ability to understand how people feel because you can imagine what it is to be like them.

• embankment

  An embankment is a built-up bank or ridge made of earth or stone that supports a road or holds back water.

• embodiment

  An embodiment of something, such as a quality or idea, is a visible representation or concrete expression of it.

• emphatic

  When you make an emphatic declaration, you are insistent and absolute about it.

• embark

  When you embark upon a journey, you begin it, either by boarding a plane or boat—or by starting a new endeavor.

• emphasis

  When you put emphasis on something, you point out or stress that it is very important or significant in some way.

• embouchure

  The word embouchure refers to how the lips and tongue are placed on a wind instrument or to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument.

• empyrean

  The empyrean is another word for the sky or for the heavens.

• employ

  To employ someone is to hire them or give them money for working for you.