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Today's Word "explicate"

To explain on

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explicate \EK-spluh-kayt\ (transitive verb) - To explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity.

"I can cite a case -- my own -- of a young person's being altered politically by a novel, but I cannot explicate the process, let alone explain it in terms of the author's intention or literary strategies." -- Mary McCarthy, 'The Lasting Power of the Political Novel'

 

Explicate comes from Latin explicare, "to unfold; to unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain, expound, or interpret," from ex-, "out" + plicare, "to fold."


 

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