elude vs allude
Definitions
verb
- escape, either physically or mentally
- avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues)
- be incomprehensible to; escape understanding by
Examples
(Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.")
If the mother is allowed to refuse a kidney donation that would keep her child alive once the child is born, why should she be preluded from having an abortion if she wants one in order to save one of her kidneys?
Isn't abbreviation a prelude to obliteration?
Definitions
verb
- make a more or less disguised reference to
Examples
On Tuesday, guard Jaymes Brooks was discussing how Smith has become the player who "fusses at us a lot, tries to get our spirits up, tries to tell us not to get our heads down in certain situations" when he also alluded to a speech Smith gave at halftime of that East Carolina game.
The bear is called grandfather by many peoples and the tiger is alluded to as the striped one.
Phyllotaxis, which need not be entered into fully here; but in order the better to estimate the teratological changes which take place, it may be well to allude to the following circumstances relating to the alternation of parts.
