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Words that start with E

Eight echidnas eat eggs in an elevator.

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E is for Exit

An exit is the way out of somewhere, or the way to leave. An exit might be a place or something you do, for example "he exited the room".
The opposite of an exit is an entrance.

E is for Expand

To expand means to take up more space or grow bigger.

As you blow up a balloon, it expands.

E is for Expensive

Something is expensive if it costs a lot of money. Expensive things are usually very high quality, or have a brand name or are made by someone that people are willing to pay extra for. The opposite of expensive is cheap.

E is for Expired

Expired means something is no longer valid or useful because its time has passed.

For example, your parking slot or your bus ticket may expire. Food or medicine that is past its expiry date should not be used or eaten.

E is for Explain

You explain something when you make something easy to understand, or say how to do it in easy steps.
An explanation for something is a reason for it.

E is for Explore

To look at, study, and scout a new area. The cat in the picture is exploring some digging machinery.

E is for Explosion

When something explodes it suddenly gets bigger. Explosions usually make a loud noise and make a lot of heat. Popcorn popping is an example of a small explosion, and a bomb going off is an example of a large one. Large explosions can create so much force they can reduce buildings to rubble.

E is for Extinct

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.

E is for Extinguish

Extinguish means to stop a fire or flame from burning. You might extinguish a candle, or like the firefighters in the picture, extinguish the fire in a burning building.

E is for Extrovert

An extrovert is an outgoing, social and expressive person.

E is for Eye

You have two eyes on your face, just above your nose. You use your eyes to see things. You close your eyes when you are asleep. The eye in the photo is brown.

E is for Eyebrow

You have two eyebrows, one above each eye. An eyebrow is a strip of hair between your forehead and your eye socket. Eyebrows help to stop sweat running from your forehead into your eyes.

E is for Eyed

Eyed is the past tense of eye, but it means you were looking at someone or something. For example, "He eyed off the cakes on the counter".

E is for Eyelash

Your eyelashes are hairs that grow on the edges of your eyelids. Eyelashes protect your eyes, by stopping dirt and dust from getting in your eyes.

E is for Eyelid

Eyelids are pieces of skin that cover your eyes. When you close your eyelids, you can't see anything. The edges of your eyelids have hairs growing on them called eyelashes.

E is for Eyeliner

Eyeliner is a decoration for your eyes. You draw it on in a thin line around the edges of your eyes.

E is for Eyes

Eyes is the plural of eye.

E is for Eyeshadow

Eyeshadow is coloring that you put around your eyes, particularly on your upper eyelid.