{"id":105,"date":"2014-03-29T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T00:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=105"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T00:38:45","slug":"the-difference-between-allude-elude-and-illude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-allude-elude-and-illude\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between allude, elude and illude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t come across these words too often in my life, to be honest, but they do like getting each other mixed up from time to time. Let\u2019s unscramble them a bit.<\/p>\n<p>allude (verb)\u2014to suggest, refer to casually or mention briefly<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Mrs Bates alluded to the fact that her husband had been set up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>As he spoke, the judge alluded to the main points of the case.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>elude (verb)\u2014avoid or escape something or someone<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>He tip-toed his way through the shadows and eluded the guards by the gate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>After an hour of flying, the Snitch still eluded Harry.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>illude (verb)\u2014to delude or trick something or someone<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>A hallucination is an example of the brain illuding an individual.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>In his ignorance, John had allowed the man to illude him into a false sense of security.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many &#8216;-lude&#8217;s!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}