explicate



account for, amplify, clarify, clear up, construe, crack, decipher, demonstrate, demythologize, descant, detail, develop, dilate, elaborate, elucidate,









   shift off - adjourn, beg the question, continue, defer, delay, dodge, drag out, duck, equivocate, extend, fence, hang fire, hang up, hedge, hem and haw,

   waking dream - apparition, appearance, fantasy, figure, form, image, phantasm, phantasmagoria, phantom, presence, shade, shadow, shape, spectre, vision,

   nestling - amorous dalliance, apprentice, baby, baby bird, beginner, billing and cooing, bird, bird of night, bird of passage, bird of prey, birdie, bundling, cage bird, calf, callow,

   discreetly - artfully, astutely, cannily, carefully, cautiously, circumspectly, cleverly, considerately, cunningly, discerningly, easy, gingerly, guardedly, heedfully, intelligently,

   bear a hand - abet, act on, aid, assist, avail, bail out, befriend, benefit, chip in, comfort, contribute, doctor, ease, enter into, favour,

   recluse - anchoress, anchorite, anchoritic, ascetic, bedridden invalid, cenobite, character, cloistered, cloistered monk, closet cynic, crackpot, crank, desert fathers, desert saints, domestic,

   issue a caveat - admonish, caution, encourage, enjoin, exhort, expostulate, incite, induce, move, persuade, preach, prompt, remonstrate, urge, warn ,

   midday sun - dawn, day, daylight, daytime, dusk, fair weather, ray of sunshine, shine, summer, sunbeam, sunlight, sunshine ,

   papyrus - grass, oats, paper, parchment, scroll, stationery, wheat ,

   dwellers - citizenry, commonwealth, community, constituency, folk, general public, inhabitant, nation, people, populace, public, society ,