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articulate
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articulate as in:  articulate her ideas

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    Jem became vaguely articulate: " 'd you see him, Scout? d you see him just standin' there?"  (source)
    articulate = able to speak
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    Yeah, I was so articulate.  (source)
    articulate = clear in expressing (himself)
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    She kept saying it was an "articulate" film. ... The thing is, I didn't know what it said even if it said it very well.  (source)
    articulate = clearly expressed a message (or messages)
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    I have my own ideas, plans and ideals, but am unable to articulate them yet.  (source)
    articulate = clearly express
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    The Castle of Dracula now stood out against the red sky, and every stone of its broken battlements was articulated against the light of the setting sun.  (source)
    articulated = clearly seen
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    His eyes were wild, his jaw clenched in acute restraint, yet he didn't lapse from his perfect articulation.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Without articulating it to one another, they draw comfort from the fact that it is the only time in the day that they are alone, isolated, as a family; even if there are visitors lingering in the house, only the three of them partake of this meal.†  (source)
    articulating = clearly expressing with words
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    From then on, no more mollusks, no more zoophytes, no more articulates.†  (source)
    articulates = clearly expresses with words
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    While inside the vaulting of the ribs between his knees the darkly meated heart pumped of who's will and the blood pulsed and the bowels shifted in their massive blue convolutions of who's will and the stout thighbones and knee and cannon and the tendons like flaxen hawsers that drew and flexed and drew and flexed at their articulations and of who's will all sheathed and muffled in the flesh and the hooves that stove wells in the morning groundmist and the head turning side to side and the great slavering keyboard of his teeth and the hot globes of his eyes where the world burned.†  (source)
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    I remembered to smile and speak articulately.†  (source)
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    Mr. Samgrass's deft editorship had assembled and arranged a curiously homogeneous little body of writing—poetry, letters, scraps of a journal, an unpublished essay or two, which all exhaled the same high-spirited, serious, chivalrous, other-worldly air and the letters from their contemporaries, written after their deaths, all in varying degrees of articulateness, told the same tale of men who were, in all the full flood of academic and athletic success, of popularity and the promise of great rewards ahead, seen somehow as set apart from their fellows, garlanded victims, devoted to the sacrifice.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Bill picks up Bernadine's conversational thread, responding swiftly, breezy and hyperarticulate, about seeing the OJ verdict in a juvenile detention center with some hardened kids who were "high-fiving and screaming that 'I want that Johnnie Cochran as my lawyer.'†  (source)
    hyperarticulate = extremely well-spoken
    standard prefix: The prefix "hyper-" in hyperarticulate means extremely. This is the same pattern as seen in words like hypersensitive, hyperactive, and hypercritical.
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    He was too young to articulate exactly what was wrong with every picture; he just knew they weren't right.  (source)
    articulate = clearly express
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