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explain or discuss in detail- You will be asked to expound on a teacher-selected topic from the book.
expound = discuss in detail
- The Federal Reserve Chairman will expound on the inflation outlook.
- Several nights a week, after Mr. Jones was asleep, they held secret meetings in the barn and expounded the principles of Animalism to the others.George Orwell -- Animal Farm
- Atticus was expounding upon farm problems when Walter interrupted to ask if there was any molasses in the house.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- My immediate purpose is to place before the world, plainly, succinctly, and without comment, a series of mere household events. In their consequences, these events have terrified—have tortured—have destroyed me. Yet I will not attempt to expound them.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Black Cat
- Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.Alexander Hamilton -- Federalist Papers
- I then expounded to Miss Mills what I had endeavoured, so very unsuccessfully, to expound to Dora.Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Expound unto me, boy.Shakespeare -- King Henry V
- I'm not of his persuasion now, but he's a good man, and he'll expound as well as any parson I know.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman
- "Because—" But it was no moment to expound the personal nature of love.E.M. Forster -- Howards End
- That tonne-for-tonne deal— Prof had expounded it Earthside, had been argument for a Terran catapult.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- He expounded on the lack of morality in the young, the dearth of organized religion in the home, the school, the workplace.J.D. Robb -- Naked in Death
- 'He glanced up at me, as if not sure whether or not he wanted to expound on this.Sarah Dessen -- Lock and Key
- Expound the latest theories!Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- Crime and Punishment
- Judges cannot be too separate from every other avocation than that of expounding the laws.Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, & John Jay -- The Federalist Papers — Modern English Edition 2
- The allegation, which was untrue, irritated the detectives into expounding very convincing denials.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- Faith, nothing; but has left me here behind to expound the meaning or moral of his signs and tokens.William Shakespeare -- The Taming of the Shrew
- Maggie's mother paced to and fro, addressing the doorful of eyes, expounding like a glib showman at a museum.Stephen Crane -- Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
- Of the vision that Sir Percivale saw, and how his vision was expounded, and of his lion.Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
- But what plays the mischief with this masterly code is the admirable brevity of it, which necessitates a vast volume of commentaries to expound it.Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
expound = discuss in detail
expounded = explained in detail
expounding = discussing or explaining details
expound = explain or discuss in detail