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has a certain elfin charm, but I don't like her. 2 small, wee,
diminutive, tiny, little, dainty, Lilliputian: This is a
delightful tale of elfin folk and magic birds.
elicit v. draw out, call forth, evoke, bring out or forth, bring to
light, extract, wring, wrest, wrench: They finally elicited the
fact that she had been lying about his whereabouts.
eligible adj. 1 fit, worthy, qualified, proper, suitable, appropriate,
fitting: Is he an eligible candidate for the post? 2 single,
unmarried, unwed, available: He is one of the few eligible
bachelors in the town.
eliminate v. 1 remove, exclude, rule out, reject, drop, leave out, omit:
Police have eliminated him from their enquiries. 2 take out or
away, omit, get rid of, dispose of, expel, knock out: He was
eliminated in the first heat of the 100-metre run. 3 erase,
eradicate, expunge, obliterate, strike (out), cross out or off,
cut (out), excise, delete, throw out, edit (out), blue-pencil,
cancel: The censors have eliminated all references to sex. 4
kill, murder, assassinate, slay, terminate, exterminate, dispose
of, liquidate, finish off, annihilate, stamp out, destroy, Slang
bump off, polish off, US rub out, take for a ride, bury, ice,
waste: They used a sub-machine gun to eliminate the
competition.
‚lite n. 1 elite, gentry, aristocracy, aristocrats, elect, upper
class, nobility, privileged class, blue bloods, crŠme de la
crŠme, haut monde, jet set, jet-setters, US Four Hundred,
F.F.V., First Families of Virginia, Colloq upper crust,
beautiful people, Brit nobs: The economic collapse had barely
touched the wealthy ‚lite.
--adj. 2 elite, aristocratic, elect, upper-class, privileged,
blue-blooded, noble, exclusive, choice, best, top: She
socializes with rather an ‚lite group of people.
elixir n. 1 panacea, cure-all, nostrum, wonder drug, miracle drug,
sovereign remedy: In the Middle Ages alchemists sought a
universal cure, an elixir. 2 essence, potion, extract,
tincture, compound, mixture: Ophidia's Elixir was the name of a
patent snake-oil medicine. 3 pith, core, kernel, heart,
essence, quintessence, principle, extract, base, basis, soul: