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illuminative

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as in explanative
serving to explain illuminative descriptions of the sights to be seen from the observatory gave us a much better idea of what we were looking at

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“Illuminative.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/illuminative. Accessed 9 Dec. 2022.

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