Elite and Lead

Elite

Elite noun - Individuals carefully selected as being the best of a class.

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Lead and elite are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Lead" instead the word "Elite" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: elitist, elitism

Lead noun - The person who has the most important role in a play, movie, or TV show.

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Elite and lead are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Elite" instead the word "Lead" as a noun or an adjective.

Nearby Words: leading, leader, leaden, leadership, leaded

female	female elite	female lead
particular	particular elite	particular lead
normal	normal elite	normal lead
common	common elite	common lead
Other adjectives: original, single, strong, powerful, new, former, occasional.

Queen Of Shadows has the Shogunate in the Shadows, the elite group of warriors gathered from across Japan by Lord Rokutaro to lead his regular armies against the Shadowkhan.

Source: La Résistance
This can lead to the odd situation where you curb stomp the general himelf, and then immediately find yourself getting slapped around by his elite goons.

Source: Elite Mooks
Elite Mooks/Heavily Armored Mook: The heavily armored Triad Enforcers; they have a heavily damaging, lead-spewing M60 and can toss grenades as well.

Source: Video Game / Rise of the Triad

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