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He received the Nobel Prize in medicine for elucidating electrical events in the nervous system.elucidating = explaining (making clear for the first time)
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The study elucidates the relationship between impulse control and success in life.elucidates = makes clear
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We asked Miss Maudie to elucidate: she said Miss Stephanie seemed to know so much about the case she might as well be called on to testify. (source)elucidate = explain further
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But he did haul our water and cut wood, and he elucidated for us the many daily mysteries of Kilanga. (source)elucidated = explained (made clear)
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In the book's portraits, there is a significant amount of what is sometimes called "internal voice," elucidating the thoughts and feelings of a character as he or she moves through visible actions or encounters in a day. (source)elucidating = making clear
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Yossarian found himself listening intently to the fascinating elucidation of details. (source)elucidation = explanation (making clear)
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I smile, wait for her to elucidate.† (source)
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He elucidated the meaning of the incense-how it symbolized life and happiness-and spent long minutes recounting legends about Guntera, how the god was born fully formed to a she-wolf at the dawn of stars, how he had battled monsters and giants to win a place for his kin in Alagaesia, and how he had taken Kilf, the goddess of rivers and the sea, as his mate.† (source)elucidated = explained (made clear)
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Natalia followed up a moment later with a long message, full of links to articles and images of the Miami area, elucidating the many activities possible in winter—sport fishing, jet-skiing, dancing.† (source)elucidating = making clear
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Some days he saw mystery everywhere, in earthworms and holly trees and basset hounds, and the inexplicability of even the simplest life so angered and stupefied him that he almost resented any balancing elucidation.† (source)elucidation = explanation (making clear)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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Henrietta wandered away with Mr. Bantling, whom it was apparently delightful to her to hear speak of Julius Caesar as a "cheeky old boy," and Ralph addressed such elucidations as he was prepared to offer to the attentive ear of our heroine.† (source)
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From Shakespeare there gushed a flame of such marvellous splendor that men shaded their eyes as against the sun's meridian glory; nor even when the works of his own elucidators were flung upon him did he cease to flash forth a dazzling radiance from beneath the ponderous heap.† (source)
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Towards this end, indeed, he had purposed to introduce, in this place, a dissertation touching the divine right of beadles, and elucidative of the position, that a beadle can do no wrong: which could not fail to have been both pleasurable and profitable to the right-minded reader but which he is unfortunately compelled, by want of time and space, to postpone to some more convenient and fitting opportunity;† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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Yes, she does elucidate for us the very secret world in which she lived—the rabbit's view of the field, if you will.† (source)
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The style of teaching was Socratic in nature; ideas and theories were elucidated through the leaders asking and answering questions.† (source)elucidated = explained (made clear)
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Yet he persisted, patiently elucidating the coats of the cell wall that caused a reaction in host tissue and helping to discover the half-dozen toxins secreted by the bacteria to break down tissue, spread infection, and destroy red cells.† (source)elucidating = making clear
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