Flashcards: Latin Derivatives

elucidate

 

to make clear; to explain

 

An article in today's newspaper elucidates President Truman's decision to use the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945.

 

Related English words: elucidation, elucidative, elucidator

 

Latin root words: lucidus, cf. lucid; lux, lucis, f. - light 

 

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