ELUCIDATORY

PRONUNCIATION: (i-LOO/LYOO-si-duh-tuh-ree)

MEANING: adjective: Serving to clarify or explain.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin elucidare (to make clear), from lucid (bright, clear), from lucere (to shine), from lux (light). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leuk- (light), which also gave us lunar, lunatic, light, lightning, lucid, illuminate, illustrate, lustration, Lucifer, translucent, lux, and lynx. Earliest documented use: 1774.
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ELUCIDASTORY - C'mon, Aesop. just give us one more!

EL-CID -ATORY - pertaining to Spanish heroics

ELUCIDATONY - If this doesn't get us an award, nothing will!