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has a certain elfin charm, but I don't like her. 2 small, wee,<br />

diminutive, tiny, little, dainty, Lilliputian: This is a<br />

delightful tale of elfin folk and magic birds.<br />

elicit v. draw out, call forth, evoke, bring out or forth, bring to<br />

light, extract, wring, wrest, wrench: They finally elicited the<br />

fact that she had been lying about his whereabouts.<br />

eligible adj. 1 fit, worthy, qualified, proper, suitable, appropriate,<br />

fitting: Is he an eligible candidate for the post? 2 single,<br />

unmarried, unwed, available: He is one of the few eligible<br />

bachelors in the town.<br />

eliminate v. 1 remove, exclude, rule out, reject, drop, leave out, omit:<br />

Police have eliminated him from their enquiries. 2 take out or<br />

away, omit, get rid of, dispose of, expel, knock out: He was<br />

eliminated in the first heat of the 100-metre run. 3 erase,<br />

eradicate, expunge, obliterate, strike (out), cross out or off,<br />

cut (out), excise, delete, throw out, edit (out), blue-pencil,<br />

cancel: The censors have eliminated all references to sex. 4<br />

kill, murder, assassinate, slay, terminate, exterminate, dispose<br />

of, liquidate, finish off, annihilate, stamp out, destroy, Slang<br />

bump off, polish off, US rub out, take for a ride, bury, ice,<br />

waste: They used a sub-machine gun to eliminate the<br />

competition.<br />

‚lite<br />

n. 1 elite, gentry, aristocracy, aristocrats, elect, upper<br />

class, nobility, privileged class, blue bloods, crŠme de la<br />

crŠme, haut monde, jet set, jet-setters, US Four Hundred,<br />

F.F.V., First Families of Virginia, Colloq upper crust,<br />

beautiful people, Brit nobs: The economic collapse had barely<br />

touched the wealthy ‚lite.<br />

--adj. 2 elite, aristocratic, elect, upper-class, privileged,<br />

blue-blooded, noble, exclusive, choice, best, top: She<br />

socializes with rather an ‚lite group of people.<br />

elixir n. 1 panacea, cure-all, nostrum, wonder drug, miracle drug,<br />

sovereign remedy: In the Middle Ages alchemists sought a<br />

universal cure, an elixir. 2 essence, potion, extract,<br />

tincture, compound, mixture: Ophidia's Elixir was the name of a<br />

patent snake-oil medicine. 3 pith, core, kernel, heart,<br />

essence, quintessence, principle, extract, base, basis, soul:

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