elucidating
Shedding light on
Elucidating is the act of making something clear or explaining it thoroughly.
The word carries a sense of shedding light on what was obscure or confusing: The professor spent the hour elucidating the finer points of contract law.
To elucidate is to clarify, often through careful analysis or detailed explanation.
Systematic explanatory presentation
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
- annotationAdded explanatory comment
tutorial · lecture · demonstration · breakdown · walkthrough · interpretation · gloss · narration
Intended to instruct
- pedagogicRelating to teaching
- instructiveServing to teach
- informativeProviding useful knowledge
- edifyingIntellectually or morally uplifting
educational · expository · illustrative · explanatory · tutorial · scholastic · academic · professorial
Clarify through detailed analysis
- demystifyExplain something confusing
- unravelSeparate intertwined strands
- decodeConvert from cipher
- disambiguateResolve unclear meaning
parse · expound · construe · shed light · interpret · simplify · untangle · decipher
Deep perceptive understanding
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
- awarenessState of perceiving reality
epiphany · discernment · perception · realization · awakening · edification · gnosis · satori
exposition
Systematic explanatory presentation
- explicationDetailed interpretive analysis
- exegesisCritical textual interpretation
- commentaryExplanatory remarks on events
annotation · tutorial · lecture · demonstration · breakdown · walkthrough · interpretation · gloss · narration · presentation
didactic
Intended to instruct
- pedagogicRelating to teaching
- instructiveServing to teach
- informativeProviding useful knowledge
edifying · educational · expository · illustrative · explanatory · tutorial · scholastic · academic · professorial · lecturing
explicate
Clarify through detailed analysis
disambiguate · parse · expound · construe · shed light · interpret · simplify · untangle · decipher · spell out
insight
Deep perceptive understanding
- understandingMental comprehension of something
- comprehensionMental understanding of meaning
- revelationSurprising disclosed truth
awareness · epiphany · discernment · perception · realization · awakening · edification · gnosis · satori · aha moment
- explainingexplaining, clarifying, elaborating, expounding, interpreting
- interpretationinterpretive dance, translation, interpreting, translating, construing
elucidatingobscuring
Making less visible
confusing · obfuscating · muddling · clouding · befuddling