Question: what is the word for getting pleasure out of the pain of others? it starts with an e? 

Answer: The most common word is the borrowed German word Schadenfreude, though obviously that doesn't begin with an e. The Wikipedia article does mention an obscure English equivalent though, epicaricacy, although it doesn't seem to have been in an English dictionary since 1727.
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