{"id":19050,"date":"2021-05-15T08:00:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/?p=19050"},"modified":"2021-01-14T15:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T20:13:12","slug":"english-words-of-the-day-allude-elude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/english-words-of-the-day-allude-elude\/","title":{"rendered":"English words of the day: ALLUDE &#038; ELUDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BvmxFwkn0wU?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a class=\"elementor-button large blue rounded\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/english-speaking-courses\"><strong>Learn more about our courses<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong><a class=\"elementor-button large green rounded\" style=\"color: #ffffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espressoenglish.net\/free-samples-of-espresso-english-e-books-courses\/\"><strong>Take free sample lessons<\/strong><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hi there! I\u2019m back with another verb of the day \u2013 actually, today we\u2019re going to learn TWO verbs because they sound very similar but they mean different things.<\/p>\n<h3>ALLUDE<\/h3>\n<p>The first one is allude. Two syllables with the stress on the second one \u2013 al-LUDE. If you allude to something, it means you refer to it indirectly when speaking or writing. You <em>don\u2019t<\/em> say it specifically and directly, instead you mention it in a more indirect way.<\/p>\n<p>An example, let\u2019s say there\u2019s a businesswoman who grew up in a very poor family, and now she\u2019s very successful. She might say something like \u201cThe challenges I faced as a child helped make me the woman I am today.\u201d \u2013 she doesn\u2019t directly say that her family lacked money or had difficulty buying food; instead she simply alludes to her family\u2019s problems by mentioning them indirectly.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe there\u2019s an author talking about his latest book, and while he\u2019s giving an interview, he alludes to other writers who have influenced him. He doesn\u2019t say who they are specifically, he just refers to them indirectly; he alludes to those other writers.<\/p>\n<p>Now allude spelled A-L-L-U-D-E is different from elude spelled E-L-U-D-E, although in fast spoken English they\u2019re typically pronounced almost the same.<\/p>\n<h3>ELUDE<\/h3>\n<p>Elude starting with E means to avoid, escape, or stay away from. A criminal might elude the police by taking a getaway car; he managed to escape. Or maybe your boss is in a very bad mood today, so you try to elude him in the office, you try to stay away or escape his presence.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to physically getting away, elude can also mean when you\u2019re going after some goal or trying to do something, but you can\u2019t achieve it. So maybe an athlete has competed in the Olympics three times but she\u2019s never gotten a medal, you could say an Olympic medal has eluded her. She\u2019s trying to get it, but she hasn\u2019t captured or gotten it yet.<\/p>\n<p>All right? Allude starting with ALL\u00a0 means to refer to something indirectly, and elude starting with EL means to escape or stay away from. Those are our two verbs of the day. 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I\u2019m back with another verb of the day \u2013 actually, today we\u2019re going to learn TWO verbs because they sound very similar but they mean different things. ALLUDE The first one is allude. Two syllables with the stress on the second one \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>English words of the day: ALLUDE &amp; ELUDE - Espresso English<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\ufeff Learn more about our courses Take free sample lessons Hi there! 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