| elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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| (verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
| (verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
| elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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| elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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| elide | (verb) leave or strike out | - |
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| eligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being eligible | - |
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| eligible | (adjective) qualified for or allowed or worthy of being chosen | - |
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| eliminate | (verb) eliminate from the body | Synonyms: egest, excrete, pass |
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| (verb) kill in large numbers | Synonyms: annihilate, carry off, decimate, eradicate, extinguish, wipe out |
| (verb) terminate, end, or take out | Synonyms: do away with, extinguish, get rid of |
| (verb) remove (an unknown variable) from two or more equations | - |
| (verb) dismiss from consideration or a contest | Synonyms: reject, rule out, winnow out |
| (verb) remove from a contest or race | - |
| (verb) get rid of something | Synonyms: obviate, rid of |
| elimination | (noun) the murder of a competitor | Synonyms: liquidation |
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| (noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: riddance |
| (noun) the act of removing an unknown mathematical quantity by combining equations | - |
| (noun) analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives | Synonyms: reasoning by elimination |
| (noun) the bodily process of discharging waste matter | Synonyms: evacuation, excreting, excretion, voiding |
| eliminator | (noun) an agent that eliminates something | - |
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| elision | (noun) a deliberate act of omission | Synonyms: exception, exclusion |
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| (noun) omission of a sound between two words (usually a vowel and the end of one word or the beginning of the next) | - |
| elite | (adjective) selected as the best | Synonyms: elect |
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| (noun) a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status | Synonyms: elite group |
| elitism | (noun) the attitude that society should be governed by an elite group of individuals | - |
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| elitist | (noun) someone who believes in rule by an elite group | - |
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| elixir | (noun) a substance believed to cure all ills | - |
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| (noun) 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 | - |
| (noun) hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold | Synonyms: philosopher's stone, philosophers' stone |