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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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“Explicated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/explicated. Accessed 26 Jan. 2022.
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