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Originally Posted by Faroá
This is not my business... and poking my nose into your conversation, but "explicate" and "explication" they do exist, and they come from Latin as we know.
To explicate means to unfold something, i.e. to explicate a poem. I've found these links amongst others which can provides us some "explanations".
Sometimes "to explicate" goes along with its opposite meaning "to implicate"... if I'm not mistaken.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explication
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/explicate |
Hello Faroá...your "nose" and input are welcome into the conversation
I hope you understand that neither mariaklec nor I were questioning the existence of the words. Mariaklec (and I, too, now that I know) acknowledge that they exist, but why employ a limited use word like explicate that others might not know and you are unlikely to ever see again when you can use a more common word? The point is that they are not commonly used words and it would be better for a student of English such as maramaras to use more easily recognizable words in the early stages of her learning process.
On the topic: Her question was whether "account for" was a synonym of "to explicate" and from my understanding of the definition of explicate I'd say that "to account for" as a phrasal verb meaning "to make clear or to explain" is, indeed, loosely synonymous.
P.S. I'm not sure how you are making the association but I do not think implicate is the opposite, or an antonym, of explicate.
Antonyms of explicate:cloud,
complicate,
confuse,
mystify,
obscure,
tangle
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
and possibly "account for"
I must admit that this has taught me a new word...explicate...even if I never get to use it at least I will recognize it in the future.
Saludos!