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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"
Elimate
- - To render smooth; to polish.
Elinvar
- noun - Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures
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
Elitist
- noun - someone who believes in rule by an elite group
Elixate
- - To boil; to seethe; hence, to extract by boiling or seething.
Elixirs
- noun - a substance believed to cure all ills
- a sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste
- hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold