clarification
Dispelling the confusion
Clarification is the act of making something clearer or easier to understand.
You might ask for clarification when instructions are confusing: Could you provide some clarification on the deadline?
The word also applies to processes that remove impurities or cloudiness, as when butter is clarified by separating out the milk solids.
Detailed interpretive analysis
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- interpretationAssigned meaning
- explanationStatement making something clear
simplification · demystification · disambiguation · unpacking · breakdown · annotation · commentary · gloss
Removing uncertainty about meaning
- sorting outResolving confusion or disorder
- untanglingSeparating twisted strands
- unravelingProcess of coming undone
- disentanglingSeparating intertwined things
resolving · settling · clearing · dispelling · addressing · answering · solving · working out
Mental understanding of meaning
- graspSeize or understand
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
- illuminationProvision of light
realization · recognition · discernment · apprehension · perception · cognizance · awareness · sensemaking
Request for information
- queryRequest for information
- follow-upSubsequent action on something
- probingThoroughly investigating something
- askingPosing questions
requesting · seeking · verification · confirmation · checking · double-checking · questioning · prompting
Change to official text
- rectificationAct of setting straight
- revisionAltering to improve
- modificationAct of altering something
- adjustmentAlteration to improve fit
emendation · refinement · retraction · erratum · redress · setting straight · clearing up · correcting
Detailed technical requirement
- delineationPrecise description or demarcation
- delimitationFixing of boundaries
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
precision · exactness · explicitness · particularity · specificity · defining · pinpointing · narrowing
explication
Detailed interpretive analysis
- elaborationDevelopment through detail
- expositionSystematic explanatory presentation
- interpretationAssigned meaning
explanation · simplification · demystification · disambiguation · unpacking · breakdown · annotation · commentary · gloss · paraphrase
disambiguation
Removing uncertainty about meaning
- sorting outResolving confusion or disorder
- untanglingSeparating twisted strands
- unravelingProcess of coming undone
disentangling · resolving · settling · clearing · dispelling · addressing · answering · solving · working out
comprehension
Mental understanding of meaning
- graspSeize or understand
- insightDeep perceptive understanding
- enlightenmentProfound spiritual awakening
illumination · realization · recognition · discernment · apprehension · perception · cognizance · awareness · sensemaking · epiphany
inquiry
Request for information
- queryRequest for information
- follow-upSubsequent action on something
- probingThoroughly investigating something
asking · requesting · seeking · verification · confirmation · checking · double-checking · questioning · prompting · pressing
amendment
Change to official text
- rectificationAct of setting straight
- revisionAltering to improve
- modificationAct of altering something
adjustment · emendation · refinement · retraction · erratum · redress · setting straight · clearing up · correcting · updating
specification
Detailed technical requirement
- delineationPrecise description or demarcation
- delimitationFixing of boundaries
- stipulationCondition in an agreement
demarcation · precision · exactness · explicitness · particularity · specificity · defining · pinpointing · narrowing · sharpening
- damage controlapology, retraction, press release, statement, spin
- communicationtelephone, conversation, inform, hand signal, messages
- conversationlistening, talk, talking, chat, speaking
- questionsquestion, inquiry, questions, query, interrogatives
- food processingcanning, freezing, drying, packaging, pasteurization
- beverage makingbrew, brewing, ferment, fermentation, distillation
clarificationconfusion
Mental disorientation or bewilderment
bewilderment · muddle · misunderstanding · perplexity · befuddlement
clarificationobfuscation
Deliberate concealment through confusion
complication · muddying · obscuring · muddling · mystification
- values clarificationProcess of identifying core beliefs