Word for Today

explicate EK-spluh-kayt

transitive verb: To explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity.

Explicate comes from Latin explicare, "to unfold; to unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain, expound, or interpret," from ex-, "out" + plicare, "to fold." "The French baccalaureate exam asked students to explicate a passage from Kant." --Cullen Murphy