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Illustrative

Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.

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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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Informatory 84% connected

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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Informatory 84% connected

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive.

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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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Illustrate 74% connected

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Illustrate 74% connected

To make clear, bright, or luminous.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Demonstrative 92% connected

Having the nature of demonstration; tending to demonstrate; making evident; exhibiting clearly or conclusively.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Exemplifying 92% connected

of Exemplify

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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