{"id":751,"date":"2011-01-17T03:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T03:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-16-it-was-just-an-illusion-or-was-it-an-allusion\/"},"modified":"2015-09-11T15:06:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T19:06:05","slug":"day-16-it-was-just-an-illusion-or-was-it-an-allusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-16-it-was-just-an-illusion-or-was-it-an-allusion\/","title":{"rendered":"day 16: it was just an \u201cillusion\u201d (or was it an \u201callusion\u201d?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Adding to the alluded\/eluded and allusive\/elusive quandary is the illusion\/allusion Wacky Word pair! Again, looking at roots and affixes can be a great help. Let\u2019s start with allusion\u2014since we had alluded yesterday. (Yes, you read that right\u2014the roots are the same!) 1. Allusion (allude) a. Related to ludicrous: Hint\u2014\u201cWhat he alluded to was ludicrous!\u201d b. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[640,82,632,183],"tags":[177,180,171,249,197,196,178,176],"yoast_head":"\n