Elicit
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This is one of those words that gets mixed up often with another: In this case, illicit.
Elicit is a verb. Illicit is an adjective.
You elicit laughter from an audience when you tell a good joke. To sell drugs, however, is illicit.
It’s all in the prefix. Ill- always indicates that which is not right, not legal, not applicable. Illegal, for instance, or illegitimate.
Elicit, on the other hand, starts with a prefix that means out or out of. The beginning e is derived from the Latin ex, out, as in exit. So it means to draw out.
And here’s a sentence that may confuse things even further: ” His leadership elicited illicit behavior on the part of his followers.”
And there you have your grammar lesson for the day. I know how happy that makes you 🙂
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Kitty is soo cute…
Thank you granmarly. 🙂 And how have you been keeping?
You’re welcome 🙂
I’m doing okay, Yudith. As long as I don’t walk too much, bend, twist, etc, the pain is under control. I’ll have surgery to immobilize the SI joint on Jan. 10.
God be with you.
The poor kitty looks scared to death.