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Definition/Meaning

(verb)

to use words, images or other tools to make something easier to understand;

e.g. Can you please explain this math problem to me?

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Similar Words

Annotate

Apologize

Attribute

Clarify

Commentate

Connote

Construe

Demonstrate

Demystify

Elucidate

Explicate

Expound

Illuminate

Illustrate

Interpret

Rationalization

Rationalize

Simplify

Sugarcoat

Unriddle

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Opposite Words

Advert

Allude

Bend

Cloud

Color

Confound

Confuse

Cook

Distort

Falsify

Fudge

Garble

Hint

Imply

Indicate

Infer

Insinuate

Intimate

Misinterpret

Misrelate

Misrepresent

Misspeak

Misstate

Obfuscate

Obscure

Pervert

Signalize

Slant

Suggest

Twist

Warp

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Related Words

Absolve

Acquit

Affirm

Analyze

Annotate

Answer

Argue

Assert

At

Aver

Avouch

Avow

Cite

Comeback

Commentate

Condone

Contend

Decipher

Declare

Decode

Define

Demonstrate

Denote

Deodorize

Discount

Disentangle

Disregard

Drop

Exculpate

Excuse

Exemplify

Exonerate

Express

Extenuate

Forgive

Gloss

Gloze

Guarantee

Ignore

Illustrate

Import

Instance

Intend

Justify

Maintain

Maintainability

Mean

Mention

Name

Note

Notice

Or

Overlook

Overpass

Palliate

Pardon

Plead

Profess

Quote

Reason

Rejoin

Remit

Reply

Resolve

Respond

Retort

Return

Riposte

Shrug

Shrug off

Signify

Solve

Specify

Spell

Undo

Unravel

Unscramble

Untangle

Vindicate

Whitewash

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