🧩 explain

Speech & Thought · chosen synonyms, sense by sense

verbto make clear; give reasons for

clarifydescribeset outspell outelucidatedetailinterpretaccount for

Elucidate lifts a hard text; interpret translates meaning between systems; spell out threatens patience, politely.

The other end: confuseobscure

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How this page was made

The rings above were chosen by hand for tukuk.org, sense by sense, and checked against usage rather than a synonym database dump. The dictionary tool can list WordNet’s full synonym sets for any of 200,000 words; this shelf keeps the forty words where choosing is genuinely hard and says how.