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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | figure out, understand |
| Synonyms: | analyze, break, break down, bring out, cipher, construe, crack, decode, deduce, disentangle, dope out, elucidate, encipher, explain, expound, find the key, interpret, make clear, make out, puzzle out, read, render, reveal, solve, spell, translate, unfold, unravel, unriddle |
| Antonyms: | code, encode, scramble |
| Main Entry: | demonstrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain, illustrate |
| Synonyms: | confirm, debunk, describe, express, give for instance, make clear, ostend, proclaim, set forth, show how, teach, testify to, walk one through |
| Antonyms: | confuse, distort, falsify, misrepresent |
| Main Entry: | describe |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | explain in speech, writing |
| Synonyms: | call, characterize, chronicle, communicate, construe, convey image, define, delineate, depict, detail, distinguish, draw, elucidate, epitomize, exemplify, explicate, expound, express, illuminate, illustrate, image, impart, interpret, label, limn, make apparent, make clear, make sense of, make vivid, mark out, name, narrate, outline, paint, particularize, picture, portray, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, report, represent, sketch, specify, state, tell, term, trace, transmit, write up |
| Antonyms: | confuse, misrepresent, mix up |
| Main Entry: | display |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | show for public viewing, effect |
| Synonyms: | advertise, arrange, bare, betray, boast, brandish, bring to view, demonstrate, disclose, emblazon, evidence, evince, exhibit, expand, expose, extend, feature, flash, flaunt, flourish, glaze, grandstand, illustrate, impart, lay bare, lay out, make clear, make known, manifest, model, open, open out, parade, perform, present, promote, promulgate, publish, represent, reveal, set out, show off, showcase, sport, spread out, stretch out, trot out, uncover, unfold, unfurl, unmask, unroll, unveil, vamp |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide, secrete, withhold |
| Main Entry: | emphasize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stress, give priority to |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuate, affirm, articulate, assert, bear down, charge, dramatize, dwell on, enlarge, enunciate, headline, highlight, hit*, impress, indicate, insist on, italicize, labor the point, limelight, maintain, make a point, make clear, make emphatic, make much of, mark, pinpoint, play up, point out*, point up, press, pronounce, punctuate, put accent on, reiterate, repeat, rub in, spotlight*, underline, underscore, weight |
| Antonyms: | depreciate, forget, ignore, play down, understate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exhibit |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | put on view; present |
| Synonyms: | advertise, air, brandish, demonstrate, disclose, display, disport, evidence, evince, expose, express, feature, flash, flaunt, illustrate, indicate, let it all hang out, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, offer, ostend, parade, parade wares, proclaim, reveal, roll out, show, show and tell, show off, showcase, strut stuff, trot out, wave around |
| Antonyms: | conceal, cover, hide |
| Main Entry: | explicate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | clarify, expand |
| Synonyms: | amplify, clear up, construe, demonstrate, develop, dilate, elucidate, enlarge upon, enucleate, expatiate, explain, expound, give the big picture, illustrate, interpret, make clear, make explicit, make plain, run down, spell out, tell why, unfold, untangle, work out |
| Notes: | explicate also contains the implication that the something of which an account is being given is more complicated or detailed - so while one may explain why a child is crying, one would explicate the meaning of a poem or implications of a legal document; early senses of explain were 'smooth out' and 'spread flat' |
| Antonyms: | cloud, complicate, confuse, mystify, obscure, tangle |
| Main Entry: | get across |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | communicate an idea |
| Synonyms: | bring home, convey, get through to, impart, make clear, make understood, pass on, put over, transmit |
| Antonyms: | miscommunicate |
| Main Entry: | illustrate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | demonstrate, exemplify |
| Synonyms: | allegorize, bring home, clarify, clear, clear up, delineate, depict, disclose, draw a picture, elucidate, emblematize, embody, emphasize, epitomize, evidence, evince, exhibit, explain, expose, expound, get across, get over, highlight, illuminate, imitate, instance, interpret, lay out, limelight, make clear, make plain, manifest, mark, mirror, ostend, personify, picture, point up, portray, proclaim, represent, reveal, show, show and tell, spotlight*, symbolize, typify, vivify |
| Antonyms: | hide, obscure |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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