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Illude
- - To play upon by artifice; to deceive; to mock; to excite and disappoint the hopes of.
Illume
- verb - make lighter or brighter; "This lamp lightens the room a bit"
- supply with light
Illure
- - To deceive; to entice; to lure.
Kludge
- noun - a badly assembled collection of parts hastily assembled to serve some particular purpose (often used to refer to computing systems or software that has been badly put together)
Oleate
- - A salt of oleic acid. Some oleates, as the oleate of mercury, are used in medicine by way of inunction.
Oleone
- - An oily liquid, obtained by distillation of calcium oleate, and probably consisting of the ketone of oleic acid.
Plague
- noun - a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- a swarm of insects that attack plants; "a plague of grasshoppers"
- an annoyance; "those children are a damn plague"
- annoy continually or chronically;
- any epidemic disease with a high death rate
- any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God)
- cause to suffer a blight; "Too much rain may blight the garden with mold"
Plaice
- noun - flesh of large European flatfish
- large European food fish
Plaque
- noun - (pathology) a small abnormal patch on or inside the body
- a memorial made of brass
- Tooth decay