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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.

expound = discuss in detail

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

expounded = explained in detail

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

expounding = discussing or explaining details

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

expound = explain or discuss in detail

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

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