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Usage

• allude

  When you allude to something or someone, often events or characters from literature or history, you refer to them in an indirect way.

• alleviate

  If you alleviate pain or suffering, you make it less intense or severe.

• unalloyed

  Something that is unalloyed is whole or complete; for example, unalloyed pain cannot be relieved.

• alliteration

  Alliteration is a device used in speech or writing in which several consecutive words all begin with the same sound or letter, the latter usually a consonant.

• allocate

  When you allocate funds, you assign, set apart, or distribute different amounts of money towards different expenses.