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Elegise
- verb - compose an elegy
- Laments
Elevate
- verb - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
- raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
- raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
Elflike
- adjective - small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"
Elimate
- - To render smooth; to polish.
Elixate
- - To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
Ellipse
- noun - a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it; "the sums of the distances from the foci to any point on an ellipse is constant"
Elocute
- verb - declaim in an elocutionary manner; "The poet elocuted beautifully"
Elusive
- adjective - difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
- difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
- making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
- skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
Eluxate
- - To dislocate; to luxate.