Ant. Verbosity, wordiness, prolixity, tediousness; grandiloquence, bombast, fustian.
Elucidate. Explain, illustrate, clear, make manifest, unfold, make plain, expound.
Ant. Confuse, mystify, obscure, puzzle, bewilder, befog.
Elucidation. Explanation, exposition, illustration, demonstration; comment, annotation, commentary, gloss, scholium.
Ant. Mystification, confusion; obscurity, ambiguity.
Elude. Escape, avoid, shun, slip away; baffle, foil, thwart, disappoint, disconcert, balk, frustrate, evade, mock.
Ant. Meet, encounter, confront; dare, defy; court, invite, challenge.
Elusive, Elusory. Evasive, delusive, equivocating, deceptive, fraudulent, fallacious, deceitful, illusory; shuffling, shifting, slippery, fugitive; shadowy, unsubstantial, intangible.
Ant. Persistent, staple, certain, solid; true, sure, unequivocal.
Em-, or en-. A prefix meaning in or into, sometimes interchangeable with in-. The form em- is used before words beginning with p, b, or m. The prefix has also a causal force. Words beginning with this prefix, whose original meaning is simply the meaning of the root word plus that of the prefix, are omitted here, for their synonyms and antonyms may be readily formed from those of the root word.