Eliot
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～ British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
ELISA
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～ an assay that relies on an enzymatic conversion reaction and is used to detect the presence of specific substances (such as enzymes or viruses or antibodies or bacteria)
Elisabethville
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～ a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville
elision
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～ a deliberate act of omission; "with the exception of the children, everyone was told the news"
elision
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～ omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next)
elite
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～ a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
elitism
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～ the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals
elitist
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～ someone who believes in rule by an elite group
elixir
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～ hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
elixir
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～ a substance believed to cure all ills
elixir
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～ 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
Elixophyllin
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～ a colorless crystalline alkaloid derived from tea leaves or made synthetically; used in medicine as a bronchial dilator
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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～ English poet best remembered for love sonnets written to her husband Robert Browning (1806-1861)
Elizabeth
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～ Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; she succeeded Mary I (who was a Catholic) and restored Protestantism to England; during her reign Mary Queen of Scots was executed and the Spanish Armada was defeated; her reign was marked by prosperity and literary genius (1533-1603)
Elizabeth
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～ daughter of George VI who became the Queen of England and Northern Ireland in 1952 on the death of her father (1926-); "Elizabeth II is the head of state in Great Britain"
Elizabethan age
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～ a period in British history during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century; an age marked by literary achievement and domestic prosperity
elizabethan
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～ a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"
elk
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～ large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America
elk
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～ large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male
elk
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～ common deer of temperate Europe and Asia