Adjectives that start with E

Egyptian means anything relating to Egypt, or a person from Egypt.

Something is elastic if it snaps back to its original size after it has been stretched.
There are many uses for things with elastic properties. rubber bands and the elastic in clothing are just two uses for elastic materials.

Something or someone is elegant if it is gracefully refined and dignified.

You are employed if you have a job. Employed is also the past tense of employ.

Something is encrusted if it is covered in a layer of something else. Usually when you talk about something being encrusted, the layer is made up of lots of small things. Some expensive jewelry is encrusted with diamonds, and the rock in the picture is encrusted with barnacles.

A tree or shrub is called evergreen if it does not lose its leaves in autumn. Evergreen trees have green leaves all year around, and deciduous trees do not.

You are excited when you are really really happy about something. People get excited when they win the lottery, or are about to go away on holidays. Children often get excited at parties. People who are excited sometimes jump up and down and wave their arms around.

A plant or animal is extinct if there are no more of them alive anywhere in the world. You can only see extinct animals in books, or stuffed in a museum like the dodo in the picture.
Today, animals usually become extinct because people cut down all the trees and plants in the area where they live and they have nothing left to eat, or because people introduce a strange new animal that either eats them all so there are none left, or eats all their food and there is nothing left for them to eat.