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Why we forget words, & how to remember them. I'm Liesl Johnson, a reading and writing tutor on a mission to explore, illuminate, and celebrate words. You hope it'll be a pretty good Popple-hanger doppelganger. In a playful choice of words, Richard Panek wrote in Scientific American that 'A correct value might help elucidate the nature of _.' RELEGATE: to move down to a lower or less-important role, or to hand off to someone else. OBFUSCATE: to make dark, make hard to see, or make hard to understand.Ĭ.

IMMOLATE: to burn or destroy, often for some noble cause.ī. You've had to order a lookalike, a double, a very similar copy of the original net that you hope will be a pretty good _-_ _. Your collection is expanding, and for the sake of consistency in your display, you've tried to repurchase another of the same net that you've already got-but it's no longer available. In your home, in a kind of hammock-like net that hangs from the wall, you've displayed your collection of Popples toys from the 1980s. To see the answer, scroll all the way down. The answers will get longer as the month goes on. Longtime readers will recognize this game from years past, when we grappled with silly answers like 'shopworn popcorn,' 'hidebound guide hound,' 'cow chow kowtow,' 'unflagging pun bragging,' and 'catch-as-catch-can Etch A Sketch fan.' I'll give you a description of something, and you name it in a rhyming phrase. Our game for this month is Rhyming Puzzles! Don’t skip straight to the review-first, let your working memory empty out. Try to spend 20 seconds or more on the game below. (To save your work, copy and paste it into an email or a document.)

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If you have any questions about this word, please message me at it:Įxplain the meaning of 'elucidate' without saying 'clarify' or 'shed light on.' try it out:įill in the blanks: 'In a video, (someone) elucidates (some topic, theory, or process that used to seem confusing).'Įxample: 'In a video, Gracie Terzian elucidates the Circle of Fifths: why it's structured the way it is, and how to memorize it.' Zina Moukheiber, Forbes, 30 September 2011 has this page helped you understand 'elucidate'? he started combing the web in a desperate search for information that could elucidate his daughter's mysterious illness.' 'Derek Streat's 4-year-old daughter contracted a life-threatening autoimmune disorder that inflames blood vessels. Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 December 2020 he railed against many of the abiding tenets of German soccer. ' You can also talk about someone elucidating the meaning of something, the relevance or importance of something, the relationship or the difference between things, etc. Talk about people (and their speeches and writings) that elucidate things, like ideas, theories, mysteries, reasons, causes and effects, processes, histories, principles, patterns, etc. To say that someone has elucidated something is to say that they've thrown a helpful light on it, clarifying it and making it less dark, less murky, or less mysterious. 'Elucidate' is a formal, common word with a positive tone. Verb, the transitive kind: 'His lecture elucidated the theory for us ' 'The documentary elucidates the city's complex history.'Įlucidated, elucidating, elucidation elucidator(s) elucidative (or, if you prefer, elucidatory). To elucidate something is to make it clear and easy to understand. Inside 'elucidate,' you can see the word 'lucid,' which means 'light, bright, or clear.' It traces back to the Latin lucere, 'to shine.' (To reveal any word with blanks, give it a click.) definition: Someone m_c has their eyes shut, or is blind: they refuse to 'see' (know or understand) what they should. Someone p_sp_us is clear-sighted: able to see and understand things sharp, wise, and observant.ģ. Something p_luc_d is clear: see-through, or easy to understand.Ģ. See if you can recall some more words that tap into that primary metaphor of light and vision as knowledge:ġ. For more on this idea of primary metaphors, check out Metaphors We Live By.

It's a primary metaphor: one that connects the sensory world (light and seeing) with the mental world (knowing and understanding). Same with bright, brilliant, clear and so on. In a second, he'll elucidate his idea for the audience:Įlucidate, meaning 'to make clear, to shine a light on,' is one of those metaphorical words that equate light and seeing with knowing and understanding. His idea is becoming clear, vivid, or lucid.

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