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to make plain or understandable
- the physicist did his best to explicate the wave theory of light for the audience of laymen
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explain, expound, explicate, elucidate, interpret mean to make something clear or understandable. explain implies a making plain or intelligible what is not immediately obvious or entirely known.
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- explain the rules
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- expounding a scientific theory
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- explicate a poem
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- elucidate an obscure passage
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- interpreting a work of art
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