Euphonious. Euphonic, mellifluous, clear, musical, silvery, sweet-toned, melodious, harmonious, mellow.

Ant. Harsh, discordant, dissonant.

Euphuism. Purism, finical style, fastidious delicacy, affected elegance, high-flown diction, pompous or extravagantly ornate diction; affectation, factitiousness, pedantry, highflying (used of language).

Ant. Simplicity, vernacular, mother tongue, bluntness, naturalness, rusticity.

Evacuate. Empty; eject, expel, excrete, throw out, discharge, void; quit, leave, forsake, desert, abandon, withdraw from, relinquish.

Ant. Seize, occupy, hold, fill.

Evaporate. Vaporize, disperse in vapor; disappear, evanesce, vanish; exhale, emit in vapor; turn to vapor; melt, colliquate, liquefy, dissolve, distil.

Ant. Consolidate, compact, solidify, crystallize, indurate.

Evasion. Prevarication, equivocation, quibbling, subterfuge, shuffling, sophistry, tergiversation, disingenuousness; shift, quibble, fencing.

Ant. Answer, counter-argument, grappling; straightforwardness; challenge.