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Elusion
- noun - the act of avoiding capture (especially by cunning)
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
Elusory
- - Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive.
Eluting
- verb - wash out with a solvent, as in chromatography
Elution
- noun - the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions
Eluvium
- unknown - Residual deposits of soil, dust, and sand produced by the action of the wind
Eluxate
- - To dislocate; to luxate.
Elysian
- adjective - being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
- relating to the Elysian Fields
Elysium
- noun - (Greek mythology) the abode of the blessed after death
- a place or condition of ideal happiness