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Elegiac
- adjective - expressing sorrow often for something past; "an elegiac lament for youthful ideals"
- resembling or characteristic of or appropriate to an elegy; "an elegiac poem on a friend's death"
Elegies
- noun - a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- Song of mourning
Elegise
- verb - compose an elegy
- Laments
Elegist
- noun - the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead
Elflike
- adjective - small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"
Elicits
- verb - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
Eliding
- verb - leave or strike out; "This vowel is usually elided before a single consonant"
Elision
- noun - a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
- omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
Elitism
- noun - the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals