I believe my AP Physics teacher in high school was the first person I ever met who used this word regularly.
explicate (ex·pli·cate): / EK spli kayt /
transitive verb
(1) to explain clearly; to interpret or make comprehensible
(2) to develop and explain a theory, hypothesis, or idea and its implications; to analyze and elaborate
[From Latin explicatus, past participle of explicare meaning “to unfold,” from plicare meaning “to fold.”]
Usage: I was awestruck when my father asked if I could explicate the basic concepts of black holes so he could more readily understand them.
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