elusive
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～ difficult to describe; "a haunting elusive odor"
elusive
— Adjective
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～ making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic situation at home"
elusive
— Adjective
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～ skillful at eluding capture; "a cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist"- David Kline
elusive
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～ difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze; "his whole attitude had undergone a subtle change"; "a subtle difference"; "that elusive thing the soul"
elvish
— Adjective
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～ usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"
elysian
— Adjective
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～ being of such surpassing excellence as to suggest inspiration by the gods; "her pies were simply divine"; "the divine Shakespeare"; "an elysian meal"; "an inspired performance"
elysian
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～ relating to the Elysian Fields
emaciated
— Adjective
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～ very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
emancipated
— Adjective
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～ free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle"
emancipative
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～ tending to set free
emarginate
— Adjective
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～ having a notched tip
emasculate
— Adjective
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～ having unsuitable feminine qualities
emasculated
— Adjective
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～ (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse"
embarrassed
— Adjective
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～ made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride; "too embarrassed to say hello to his drunken father on the street"; "humiliated that his wife had to go out to work"; "felt mortified by the comparison with her sister"
embarrassed
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～ feeling or caused to feel ill at ease or self-conscious or ashamed; "felt abashed at the extravagant praise"; "chagrined at the poor sales of his book"; "was embarrassed by her child's tantrums"
embarrassing
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～ hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign"
embarrassing
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～ causing to feel shame or chagrin or vexation; "the embarrassing moment when she found her petticoat down around her ankles"; "it was mortifying to know he had heard every word"
embattled
— Adjective
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～ prepared for battle; "an embattled city"
embattled
— Adjective
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～ (of a person) beset by difficulties or conflict; "the state legislature called for the embattled governor's resignation"
embattled
— Adjective
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～ having or resembling repeated square indentations like those in a battlement; "a crenelated molding"