What is the difference between Elite and Alight?




What is the difference between Elite and Alight? :


Elite :

(
1 ) Social group considered to be the best or most important because of their power, talent, wealth, etc…

I belong to a small intellectual elite.

Do you belong to the ruling elite?



Alight : (verb)

(
1 ) Get down from a horse or vehicle

You should never alight from a moving bus.


(
2 ) Come down from the air and settle

The sparrow alighted on the roof of the house.


(
3 ) Find something by chance

My eyes alighted on a dusty old book at the back of the shell.



Alight : (adjective)

(
1 ) On fire, lit

A burning cigarette set the dry grass alight.

Her dress caught alight in the gas fire.











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