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Bract
- noun - a modified leaf or leaflike part just below and protecting an inflorescence
Coact
- verb - act together, as of organisms
Edict
- noun - a formal or authoritative proclamation
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
- Decree
Educt
- - That which is educed, as by analysis.
Eject
- verb - cause to come out in a squirt; "the boy squirted water at his little sister"
- eliminate (a substance); "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
- leave an aircraft rapidly, using an ejection seat or capsule
- put out or expel from a place; "The unruly student was excluded from the game"
Elect
- adjective - an exclusive group of people; "one of the elect who have power inside the government"
- choose; "I elected to have my funds deposited automatically"
- elected but not yet installed in office; "the president elect"
- select by a vote for an office or membership; "We elected him chairman of the board"
- selected as the best; "an elect circle of artists"; "elite colleges"
Enact
- verb - act out; represent or perform as if in a play; "She reenacted what had happened earlier that day"
- Establish by law
- order by virtue of superior authority; decree; "The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews"; "the legislature enacted this law in 1985"
Epact
- - The moon's age at the beginning of the calendar year, or the number of days by which the last new moon has preceded the beginning of the year.
Erect
- adjective - cause to rise up
- construct, build, or erect; "Raise a barn"
- of sexual organs; stiff and rigid
- upright in position or posture; "an erect stature"; "erect flower stalks"; "for a dog, an erect tail indicates aggression"; "a column still vertical amid the ruins"; "he sat bolt upright"