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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