Our physics teacher took extra measures to elucidate the theory of relativity until we fully understood the concept. From LearnThat.org.
Initially, I used the word elucidate above, as in elucidating mysteries. From Wordnik.com. [Readercon: Beyond Competence] Reference
It comes from lux, light – to elucidate is to throw light on. From Wordnik.com. [Readercon: Beyond Competence] Reference
One wonders if Amanda knows what the word "elucidate" means. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-04-01] Reference
I'll sell more books, and have the opportunity to "elucidate" more people!. From Wordnik.com. [The Nutty Professor] Reference
Vying for the award is limited to those who understand what "elucidate" means. From Wordnik.com. [Long Island Business News Products] Reference
(to 'elucidate' means to explain in greater detail). From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
A single specimen will best elucidate our meaning. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Time will elucidate this, as well as other matters. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
And it has yet to elucidate its full-blown Internet strategy. From Wordnik.com. [Apple?S Ibook: A Mac To Go] Reference
It's supposed to elucidate but ends up lessening its meaning. From Wordnik.com. [I don't have a gun and I don't have you] Reference
Some of our readers may be able to elucidate the obscure references. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
These were mysteries which for his own peace he was bound to elucidate. From Wordnik.com. [Men of Affairs] Reference
Perhaps some of your correspondents would elucidate this singular oblation. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 192, July 2, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
This I will elucidate, by relating a circumstance that happened while I was at. From Wordnik.com. [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference
I am a bona-fide genius and it is gratifying to elucidate the plebian masses. From Wordnik.com. [The Nutty Professor] Reference
With such diversity of sentiment and reasoning, how shall we elucidate the truth?. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
"All through your interruptions?" asked Pepper; "because, if you are, I'll elucidate.". From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
Dresden, which may help to elucidate the question of associations of workmen in Germany. From Wordnik.com. [A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France] Reference
California the data that will elucidate the condition of a country abounding in precious metals. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited] Reference
She endeavoured to reason coolly on the events of the past night, but reason could not elucidate them. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
I try to elucidate the variables that intersected — finally — to yield this most desirable outcome. From Wordnik.com. [Ready for Takeoff] Reference
To elucidate the question, let us consider the parallel relation of other imponderable forces to matter. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
One experiment tending to elucidate the point under discussion I had myself an opportunity of instituting. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
To explain the history and to elucidate the character of this composite people great tomes have been written. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference
Today scientists are using high-tech instruments to elucidate the mind-body connections that damage the heart. From Wordnik.com. [FOR A HAPPY HEART] Reference
Today, scientists are using high-tech instruments to elucidate the mind-body connections that damage the heart. From Wordnik.com. [FOR A HAPPY HEART] Reference
Folks read or read about the Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball's attempt to elucidate the steroids epidemic. From Wordnik.com. [The Steroids Trial Of The Century] Reference
I make this remark "parenthetically" in my desire for trying to elucidate the causes which lie at the back of the. From Wordnik.com. [Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals] Reference
“I think we may discharge the prisoner,” said he, turning to the other wise men; “we can elucidate nothing.”. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
I leave it to physiologists to elucidate the peculiarity of vital phenomena in these unfortunate abnormities of Nature. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
It must be admitted that the method is extremely confusing, but the table which follows should help to elucidate the matter. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
President should be called upon to elucidate why he judges that so efficient a Personal Equation as the C.P.R. should not be. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
We can, of course, only treat them from this limited standpoint, and so far as they involve and elucidate chemical principles. From Wordnik.com. [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference
Proto-Egyptian body of doctrine to elucidate the mutual influence of it and the ideas suggested by the practice of mummification. From Wordnik.com. [The Evolution of the Dragon] Reference
I then examined every corner of the room, without discovering the least trace by which I might elucidate this singular appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810] Reference
I have thus reason to hope that this little work will serve to elucidate many points hitherto doubtful in relation to this matter. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
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