Difference between Elucidate and Explain

ELUCIDATE vs EXPLAIN: VERB

Make palin and comprehensible
Define
Serve as a reason or cause or justification of
To give a sufficiently detailed report about (a) the reason for something, about why something happened, about a causal chain of events; about (b) how something works, about how elements in a system interact; about (c) how to do something, about the steps which need to be accomplished in order to accomplish a certain goal.
To give a valid excuse for some past behavior.
To make flat, smooth out.
To unfold or make visible.
Make plain and comprehensible

To get rid of by explanation.
To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of.
To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.

Synonyms Expound, etc. (see explain); to unfold, clear up.
To make clear or manifest; throw light upon; explain; render intelligible; illustrate: as, an experiment may elucidate a theory.
Make clear

To make plain or flat; spread out in a flattened form; unfold.
To make plain or clear to the mind; render intelligible; unfold, analyze, state, or describe in such a manner as to make evident to the minds of others; exhibit the nature, meaning, or significance of; interpret; elucidate; expound.
To exhibit, disclose, or state the grounds or causes of the existence or occurrence of; reveal or state the causal or logical antecedents or conditions of; account for.
Synonyms Explain, Expound, Interpret, Elucidate. Explain is the most general of these words, and means to make plain, clear, and intelligible. Expound is used of elaborate, formal, or methodical explanation: as, to expound a text, the law, the philosophy of Aristotle. To interpret is to explain, as if from a foreign language, to make clear what before was dark, and generally by following the original closely, as word by word and line by line: as, to interpret Hegel, Swedenborg, Emerson. To elucidate is to bring or work out into the light that which before was dark, usually by means of illustration; the word generally implies, like expound, a somewhat protracted or elaborate process. See translate.
To give explanations.

Discover, Identify, Understand, Ascertain, Delineate, Explain, Clear up, Straighten out, Sort out, Shed light on, Clear, Crystallize, Enlighten, Illuminate, Clarify

Interpret, Justify, Convey, Inform, Define, Tell, Illustrate, Decipher, Explanation, Describe, Elucidate, Clarify, Understand, Excuse, Explicate

Unravel, Clarifying, Discover, Identify, Understand, Ascertain, Delineate, Straighten out, Sort out, Shed light on, Clear, Crystallize, Enlighten, Illuminate, Clarify

Interpret, Justify, Convey, Inform, Define, Tell, Illustrate, Decipher, Explanation, Describe, Elucidate, Clarify, Understand, Excuse, Explicate

Explain why you need to postpone your hearing.
You also must explain why they are missing.
Students should be able to explain function by referring to form and explain form by referring to function.
It might explain why we find it easy to eat meat, and it might even explain why we like eating meat.
You must explain the picture using text, and vice versa, explain the text using a picture.
Identify evidence and explain content, authorship, point of view, purpose, and format; identify bias; explain the role of bias and potential audience.
You may ask them to explain why; or you may explain that a pie chart displays the contribution of each value to a total.
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Identifyevidence and explain content, authorship, purpose, and format; identify bias; explain the role of bias and potential audiencewith teacher support.
In addition, they will want to explain it and also explain the differences between possible systems, their benefits and costs.