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Elusive vs. Illusive
Elusive
/ɪˈluːsɪv/Examples:
The answer to the riddle remained elusive to all.The company's success in the market was elusive.Her dreams of fame were always just beyond her elusive grasp.
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Illusive
/ɪˈluːsɪv/Examples:
The artist's paintings create an illusive world of dreams.His success in avoiding arrests proved to be illusive.Fame can be an illusive and fleeting achievement.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Remember illusive with illusion — both involve misleading appearances.
- Think of elusive as elude — both involve escaping or being hard to catch.
- Illusive is about perception, while elusive is about difficulty in finding or capturing something.
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