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Linguistic and grammatical words.

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Eis forEscape

You escape from something when you break away from it, or out of it. People and animals most often try and escape captivity. The turtle in the picture is escaping from their part of a pond.
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.

Eis forEvil

Evil means very bad behaviour that causes harm or is very unfair or unkind.

In fiction, the "bad guy" in any story is evil.

Eis forExcited

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.
Excitement is the state of being excited, or something that makes you excited. For example, "you can feel the excitement in the crowd".

Eis forExhale

You exhale when you breathe out.
The opposite of exhale is inhale.

Eis forExpand

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

As you blow up a balloon, it expands.
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.

Eis forExpired

Expired means something is no longer valid or useful because its time has passed.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

Eis forExplain

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.

Eis forExplore

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

Eis forExtinct

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.

Eis forEyed

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".

Eis forEyes

Eyes is the plural of eye.

Fis forFabulous

Something is fabulous if it is outrageously good. Bright, bold clothes are often described as fabulous.

The little girl in the picture looks fabulous.

Fis forFade

Fading is the process by which something becomes faded. Something fades as it loses color, or loses light and becomes dim.

Fis forFaded

Something is faded if it has lost a lot of its color and just blends into the background, or is no longer as bright as it once was. The sign painted on the building is very faded, and is hard to read.
Faded is also the past tense of fade.

Fis forFake

Something is fake if it is not real or genuine. Some fakes are a copy or imitation of the original, like a forgery of a painting or counterfeit money. Many fake things pretend to be real, like mock or fake fur made from polyester instead of real fur made from animal skins. Sometimes you cannot tell the difference between something real and something fake without examining it closely, such as a gold-plated ring and a solid gold ring.
The flowers in the picture are fake.
Most fakes and imitations are considered to be much less valuable than the real thing.

Fis forFall

Something is falling if it is moving from a higher place to a lower one. Many things can fall, for example during hot weather the water level of a lake can fall. Prices of fruit for sale can fall. When you drop something, it falls.
The stunt man in the picture is falling off a building.
Fall is also another name for autumn.