How to use delusion and elusion? What is the meaning of them?

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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I would like to thank you all the forum members. “I” just want someone to assist me with these two words. delusion and elusion how to use them in sentence and what is it mean? I checked them in my dictionary but they are still not clear to me. I need someone who has seen them before.

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Hi chol,

  1. Delusion - lies, hallucination, error, illusion, fake understanding of something, e.g. I was under delusion that I would play a show with this band.

  2. Elusion - trick, ruse, monkey business, e.g. All his elusions on getting more money by fake documents came to grief.

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Hi Bonnie

I’m curious where you got that definition for the word ‘elusion’ from. It doesn’t sound correct to me.

The word ‘elusion’ is the noun form of the verb ‘elude’.

bartleby.com/61/73/E0097350.html

The word ‘elusion’ also appears to be used in the field of psychology:
encyclopedia.com/doc/1O87-elusion.html

‘Elusion’ is not a very commonly used word in everyday English. I’d say both the verb (elude) and the adjective (elusive) are far more commonly used.
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thanks Amy,

I took it from ABBYY Lingvo Voc., perhaps there is a mistake there, native english speakers know better of course than all these dictionaries.

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Hi Bonnie

That explains it then. That dictionary sometimes seems to have simply invented definitions and expressions in English.

This is what lost_soul (who is from Russia) once posted here:

I think his use of the word ‘notorious’ was probably quite appropriate.
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ah, ok (( which dictionary would you recommend?

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Hi Bonnie

www.onelook.com is an excellent source.
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