Allude Mnemonic
Explore definitions and mnemonics for allude.
allude
allude
/əˈluːd/
advert
hint
imply
indicate
insinuate
intimate
point
refer
signify
suggest
Examples
- The title of the memoir alludes to a girl.
- The words alluded to the big event.
- Edjogg alludes to the scale of the problem and that is no exaggeration.
- The incident alluded to the next scene of the movie.
- Alluding to the ideas of organic solidarity and anomie in Durkheim.
- Bonal was alluding chiefly to the civil constitution of the clergy.
- Debussy is alluded to, with the ethereal harmonies of the 11th variation.
- I allude to the spirit of religion and the spirit of liberty.
- In addition the sheer banality of continuing war is alluded to.
- Plautus appears to allude to the sicilicus in the prologue to Menaechmi.
make a more or less disguised reference to
verb
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"A + Lude. A hint you'd catch if you stayed shrewd."
"A + Loo + Dude. A dude hints about needing the loo without saying it directly."
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