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explicit
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explicit as in:  explicit instructions

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    We need to be more explicit so this will not be misunderstood.
    explicit = precise and clear
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    Some kids waved to their parents, but only briefly—it was an explicit instruction that they march straight and don't look or wave to the crowd.  (source)
    explicit = clear
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    The message wasn't explicit; teachers didn't tell us that we were too stupid or poor to make it.  (source)
    explicit = specific (said in exact words)
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    This is the one that gives explicit instructions on how to make a Horcrux.  (source)
    explicit = clear and detailed
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    Ever since Newton and Descartes, science has explicitly offered us the vision of total control.  (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
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    The explicitness of an engagement wears off this finest edge of susceptibility; it is jasmine gathered and presented in a large bouquet.†  (source)
    explicitness = detailed clarity
    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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    Waiving any exception that might be taken to the inaccuracy or inexplicitness of the distinction between internal and external, let us inquire what ground there is to presuppose that disinclination in the people.†  (source)
    inexplicitness = not clear enough to avoid confusion
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inexplicitness means not and reverses the meaning of explicitness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Four explicit lines that pointed without a doubt to this very spot.  (source)
    explicit = clear
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    But Peter and I made that pact: we explicitly said we would never tell anyone.  (source)
    explicitly = clearly and specifically
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    His poise, his explicitness, the assured presentation of verifiable detail impressed Nye-though, of course, the boy was lying.  (source)
    explicitness = detailed clarity
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    A good example of the explicit warnings of the male contingent is the following conversation with Jan: Annex: "We're afraid that when the Germans retreat, they'll take the entire population with them."  (source)
    explicit = clear
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    We tried to keep a bop in our step, tried to keep it cool, but by now we were pretty explicitly speed-walking.  (source)
    explicitly = clearly
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    Isabel was often amused at his explicitness and at the small allowance he seemed to make either for her own experience or for her imagination.†  (source)
    explicitness = detailed clarity
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explicit as in:  explicit photos and pornography

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The computer has a filter that blocks explicit photos and pornography.
explicit = expressing or displaying sexual activity or nudity in a manner that leaves little to the imagination
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    The movie is rated "R" because of explicit sex scenes.
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    When her flirtations became more explicit, Walter hesitated, and then persuaded himself that no one would ever know.  (source)
    explicit = clearly sexual
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    Though some thought it a masterpiece, Pope Urban VIII had rejected The Ecstasy of St. Teresa as too sexually explicit for the Vatican.  (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
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    Another reason is that scenes in which sex is coded rather than explicit can work at multiple levels and sometimes be more intense than literal depictions.  (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
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    A second later, with his chest unpuffed and the manager already escorting the mottled army man out, he joins Chiniqua near Bach and tries to regain the ease of a few minutes ago, talking about wanting to buy R. Kelly's album 12-play-a misguided conversational selection, he immediately realizes, because it's filled with explicit lyrics and sexual asides.  (source)
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    Almost inevitably, his reveries of reunion with her ended in explicit acts of love-making.  (source)
    explicit = detailed sexual activity
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    Carol has helped me understand why I pushed myself into such explicit sexual behavior.  (source)
    explicit = expressed in a manner many would consider offensive
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    He does not know how to say what he means, without being too explicit: Grace has a strong dash of prude in her.  (source)
    explicit = crude (unrefined in a manner that offends)
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    And there was an anatomically explicit description of her first sexual experience, at sixteen, with a French boy named Henri, who had broken poor Leila's heart.  (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
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    Overly explicit. A man or a woman who is a medium or a wizard shall be put to death; they shall be stoned with stones, their blood shall be upon them.  (source)
    explicit = expressing violence in a detailed manner
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    He had studied the graffiti on the outer walls of subway cars, noting especially the crude, sexually explicit drawings and the vulgar words that his dictionary did contain.  (source)
    explicit = expressed in a detailed manner that many would consider offensive
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    We countenance a franker view of sex than recent generations and are more explicit in discussing it.  (source)
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    He stood aloof, because he wished to avoid suggesting himself as a subject for the Squire's fatherly jokes in connection with matrimony and Miss Nancy Lammeter's beauty, which were likely to become more and more explicit.  (source)
    explicit = expressing sexual activity in a detailed manner
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