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- pronunciation:
- ek
splih
keIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
explicates, explicating, explicated |
| definition: |
to make clear or explain completely.
He knew he had to do this, but he could not explicate the reason.- similar words:
- exhibit, explain, expound, get across, illuminate, show
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| related words: |
analyze, articulate, clarify, construe, define, demonstrate, develop, illustrate, interpret, reason, review, unfold |
adverb + (v.)explicate
above, below, better, brilliantly, carefully, clearly, far, finally, fully, least, merely, particularly, precisely, theologically
(v.)explicate
+ noun
ability,
analysis,
argument,
article,
aspect,
assumption,
attempt,
behavior,
bias,
biologist,
career,
category,
chapter,
citizenship,
cognition,
color,
comment,
component,
concept,
conflict,
connection,
context,
coup,
course,
criticism,
culture,
dedication,
detail,
device,
difference,
discipline,
drama,
effect,
essay,
event,
evolution,
experience,
factor,
figure,
finding,
function,
history,
iago,
idea,
illustration,
intention,
interest,
investigation,
issue,
justice,
language,
logic,
material,
mean,
meaning,
media,
method,
methodology,
model,
mystery,
narrative,
nature,
need,
notion,
order,
paper,
passion,
perspective,
phenomenon,
philosopher,
point,
principle,
process,
purpose,
quotation,
reader,
reading,
reason,
reference,
relationship,
research,
responsibility,
rite,
scenario,
section,
sense,
set,
society,
statement,
structure,
study,
symbol,
symbolism,
term,
text,
theologian,
theory,
thesis,
tradition,
use,
ventricle,
view,
virtue,
work,
works,
writer
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| derivation: |
explicator (n.) |
The word explicate
contains the following part:
plic, plex, ply
Latin
root
that means fold, plait
  Example words:
accomplice, applicant, apply, complex, complicate, display, duplex, duplicate, explicable, explicate, implicate, implication, imply, inexplicable, multiplication, multiply1, perplex
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