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Explanatory

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

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Informative 84% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Informative 84% connected

Having power to inform, animate, or vivify.

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Instructive 84% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Instructive 84% connected

Conveying knowledge; serving to instruct or inform; as, experience furnishes very instructive lessons.

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Explain 74% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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Explain 74% connected

To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

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Account noun · 78% connection

a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.; "the explanat…

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Analyse verb · 78% connection

consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "…

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Assess verb · 78% connection

evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professio…

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Context of use noun · 78% connection

discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation

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Criterion noun · 78% connection

the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community"

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Deduction noun · 78% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Deductive reasoning noun · 78% connection

reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)

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Desegregate verb · 78% connection

open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"

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Dimension verb · 78% connection

shape or form to required dimensions

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Empirical adjective · 78% connection

derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…

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Evaluate verb · 78% connection

evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professio…

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Evaluation noun · 78% connection

act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of

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Exam noun · 78% connection

a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questi…

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Examine verb · 78% connection

consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "…

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Explicit adjective · 78% connection

precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication; "explicit instructions"; "she made her wishes e…

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Human relationship noun · 78% connection

a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and u…

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Interpret verb · 78% connection

make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"

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Interpretation noun · 78% connection

an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his…

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-ory unknown · 78% connection

An adjective suffix meaning of or pertaining to, serving for; as in auditory, pertaining to or serving for hearing; prohibitory, amend…

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Adversaria n. pl. · 78% connection

A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.

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Annotate noun · 78% connection

To explain or criticize by notes; as, to annotate the works of Bacon.

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Antiphonary noun · 78% connection

A book containing a collection of antiphons; the book in which the antiphons of the breviary, with their musical notes, are contained.

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Card noun · 78% connection

A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, or the like; as, to put a card in the news…

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Comment noun · 78% connection

A note or observation intended to explain, illustrate, or criticise the meaning of a writing, book, etc.; explanation; annotation; exp…

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Conceptual framework phrase · 78% connection

A map of the main ideas a study uses and how they connect.

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Curb noun · 78% connection

An assemblage of three or more pieces of timber, or a metal member, forming a frame around an opening, and serving to maintain the int…

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Demonstrate verb · 78% connection

To exhibit and explain (a dissection or other anatomical preparation).

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Double-tonguing noun · 78% connection

A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.

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Epideictic adjective · 78% connection

Serving to show forth, explain, or exhibit; -- applied by the Greeks to a kind of oratory, which, by full amplification, seeks to pers…

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Epidictical adjective · 78% connection

Serving to explain; demonstrative.

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Evolution noun · 78% connection

That series of changes under natural law which involves continuous progress from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous in structure, an…

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