Expositive: alternatives and connections

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

To resolve or explain.

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.

A comparison that helps explain an unfamiliar idea.

The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological phenomena by means of animalcules.

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

To tell, declare, explain, or interpret; to divine; to guess; as, to aread a riddle or a dream.

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meani…

To apply the rules of syntax to (a sentence or clause) so as to exhibit the structure, arrangement, or connection of, or to discover t…

Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.

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…

To determine the precise signification of; to fix the meaning of; to describe accurately; to explain; to expound or interpret; as, to…

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

To show how two similar ideas are different.

To make clear; to clear up what is obscure or not understood; to explain.

To translate into the English language; to Anglicize; hence, to interpret; to explain.

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

Serving to explain; demonstrative.