My new word "explicate"
Today I learned the word "explicate" from New York Time's Word of the Day, so I made up two sentences using this word. I hope someone correct them if there are mistakes.
1) From what he had experienced, he generated a hypothesis and tested it. And then, he explicated it in the journal.
2) The podcast is popular among people because the host of the podcast explicate precisely the meaning of newly coined expressions.
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My new word "explicate"
Today I learned the word "explicate" from New York Time's' * Word of the Day, so I made up two sentences using this word. I hope someone will correct them if there are mistakes.1) From what he had experienced, he generated a hypothesis and tested it. And then, he explicated it in the journal.
2) The podcast is popular among people** because the host of the podcast explicates precisely** the meaning of newly coined expressions.
Thank you for your attention.
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* The name of the newspaper is The New York Times, so the possessive is formed by placing the apostrophe after the s.
** These words are redundant; "people" are the only ones who listen to podcasts, and "to explicate" already means "to explain precisely, in great detail".
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I see and use this word in papers or dialogs that are technical in nature. So, you used the word correctly (grammatically) as a verb with an object, but then you would have to surround it with more context.
Number 2 is fine, I agree, just put the verb in 3rd person present tense.
For example 1, here's a possible "fix". Professor Knowitall generated a hypothesis on the causes of poverty based on his personal experience growing up in the barrio and tested it in the cities of Chicago, Detroit, New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. In the Fall issue of the Social Justice Journal, he explicated the exact political and socio-economic mechanisms that give rise to desperate poverty.
Of course, you can google the word explicate and see it in other contexts from smarter people than me! Great word and good luck.
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Explicate is to analyse in detail (I had to look it up I admit). I think #2 is right (but should be "explicates"), but #1 is not correct.
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