Difference between Illuminate and Elucidate

ILLUMINATE vs ELUCIDATE: NOUN

To expose to or reveal by radiation.
To adorn (a page of a book, for example) with ornamental designs, images, or lettering in brilliant colors or precious metals.
To enlighten intellectually or spiritually; enable to understand.
To make understandable; clarify.
To decorate or hang with lights.
To provide or brighten with light.
To make light; to throw light on; to supply with light, literally or figuratively; to brighten.
To light up; to decorate with artificial lights, as a building or city, in token of rejoicing or respect.
To adorn, as a book or page with borders, initial letters, or miniature pictures in colors and gold, as was done in manuscripts of the Middle Ages.
To make plain or clear; to dispel the obscurity to by knowledge or reason; to explain; to elucidate.

Decorated with or as with colored pictures.
Enlightened; illuminated.
To display a profusion of lights, in order to express joy, triumph, etc.
To decorate in color by hand; adorn with pictures, ornamental letters, designs, etc., in colors, gold, silver, etc., in flat tints, especially without shading, or with merely conventional shading: as, the illuminated missals or manuscripts of the middle ages.
To throw light upon; make luminous or clear; illustrate or elucidate.
Make clear
Introduce light into
To enlighten; inform; impart intellectual or moral light to.
To light up profusely; decorate with many lights, as for festivity, triumph, or homage: as, to illuminate one's house and grounds; the city was illuminated in honor of the victory.
To give light to; light up.

Make clear
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.

Brighten, Illustrate, Sort out, Shed light on, Clear up, Straighten out, Light up, Illume, Clear, Clarify, Crystallize, Enlighten, Light, Elucidate, Illumine

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

Highlight, Lighting, Brighten, Illustrate, Sort out, Shed light on, Straighten out, Light up, Clear, Clarify, Crystallize, Enlighten, Light, Elucidate, Illumine

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

AM the LCD will illuminate to LOW setting.
Guaranteed to illuminate the minds of your audience.
Two recent, rigorously conducted studies illuminate the picture.
LED light was attached to illuminate the fiber.
May your light illuminate every darkness surrounding you.
Brennan needs no spotlight to illuminate the stage.
LEDs to illuminate the display in dark environments.
The LED headlights may be malfunctioning if the headlights do not illuminate or if they do not illuminate at the appropriate brightness.
CANCEL button to activate the COOKIES The button backlight will illuminate red, the oven alert will sound and the LCD screen will illuminate orange.
CANCEL button to activate the REHEAT The button backlight will illuminate red, the oven alert will sound and the LCD screen will illuminate orange.