Since I didn’t get a chance to post any words of the week last week, I’m going to post ten words instead of five this week.  Here are this week’s words:

1. Epicurean: fond of or adapted to luxury or indulgence in sensual pleasures; having luxurious tastes or habits, esp. in eating and drinking.
2. Epithet: any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality, as in “Richard the Lion-Hearted” for Richard I.
3. Erudite: characterized by great knowledge; learned or scholarly.
4. Espy: to see at a distance; catch sight of.
5. Exculpate: to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame; vindicate.
6. Expatiate: to enlarge in discourse or writing; be copious in description or discussion.
7. Expiate: to atone for; make amends or reparation for.
8. Extempore: on the spur of the moment; without premeditation or preparation; offhand.
9. Extirpate: to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up.
10. Factious: given to faction; dissentious.