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Even in the heyday of one-party states, when heads of state controlled virtually every organ of associational life, the spirit world was always more elusive. Deep conventions tend to be rather elusive because they are typically practiced by following their corresponding surface conventions. This is a profound work; its darkly glowing sound invites the listener to return to grasp its themes, at once simple and elusive.

Until such functional mutations are identified, the biological mechanisms underlying the interaction will remain elusive. Early signs may be subtle and elusive and the clinical picture may be masked by consciously or non-consciously applied compensatory strategies. Yet a definition of what elites actually meant when talking about civilisation is elusive. The notion of exactness of an endomorphism extends easily to non-measure-preserving, non-singular maps even though a satisfactory definition of nonsingular entropy is still elusive.

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Term » Definition. Word in Definition. Princeton's WordNet 3. Wiktionary 4. Webster Dictionary 0. How to pronounce elusive? Alex US English. David US English. Mark US English. Daniel British. Libby British. Mia British. Karen Australian.

Hayley Australian. Natasha Australian. Veena Indian. Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. Yet the real difficulty is still before an author: it is to decide what stamp to put upon such elusive matter as ideas. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for elusive on Thesaurus. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Words nearby elusive eluded , eluent , Elul , Elura , elusion , elusive , elusory , elute , elution , elutriate , elutriator.

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