I'm bored, and want to get some points, so I thought I might copy some s**t from my dictionary. Yeah, I know, kinda dorky, but dont give me any s**t I've got nothing better to do, and I love these things. So many words are often used out of the proper context. Here I will put words that i feel need clarifcation:
"Clarify-
CONSTRUE, ELUCIDATE, EXPLAIN, EXPLICATE, INTERPRET.
When a biology teacher gets up in front of cla** and tries to explain how two brown-eyed parents can produce a blue-eyed child, the purpose is to make an entire process or sequence of events understandable. In a less formal sense, to explain is to make a verbal attempt to justify certain actions or make them understood. (she tried to explain why she was so late.) That same teacher might clarify a particular exam question- a word that means to make an earlier event, situation, or statement clear. Elucidate is a more formal word meaning to clarify, but where the root of the latter refers to clearness, the root of the former refers to light: to elucidate is to shed light on something through explanation, illustration, etc. (the principal's comments were an attempt to elucidate the school's policy on cheating.) A teacher who explicates something discusses a complex subject in a point-by-point manner (to explicate a poem.) If a personal judgement is inserted in making such an explication, the correct word is interpret (to interpret a poem's symbolic meaning.) To construe is to make a careful interpretation of something, especially where the meaning is ambiguous. For example, when a cla** misbehaves in front of a visitor, the teacher is likely to construe that behavior as an attempt to cause embarrassment or ridicule." |