What is alluded to is not mentioned, but referred to indirectly. Originally, the word implied a playful, or sportive, reference. That meaning is gone out of it.
"And so they were married." "And yet a woman." Omit the conjunction.
These forms are incorrect unless the relative pronoun has been used previously in the sentence. "The colt, spirited and strong, and which was unbroken, escaped from the pasture." "John Smith, one of our leading merchants, and who fell from a window yesterday, died this morning." Omit the conjunction.
Antecedents are predecessors.
"I anticipate trouble." To anticipate is to act on an expectation in a way to promote or forestall the event expected.
"I was anxious to go." Anxious should not be followed by an infinitive. Anxiety is contemplative; eagerness, alert for action.
In the sense of value, it means value justly, not highly. In another and preferable sense it means to increase in value.
"The juror was approached"; that is, overtures were made to him with a view to bribing him. As there is no other single word for it, approach is made to serve, figuratively; and being graphic, it is not altogether objectionable.
"He appropriated his neighbor's horse to his own use." To appropriate is to set apart, as a sum of money, for a special purpose.