It's the Word of the Day podcast for March 29th.
Today's word is elucidate, spelled E-L-U-C-I-D-A-T-E.
Elucidate is a verb.
To elucidate something is to make it clear or easy to understand.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Architectural Digest.
Building flexible classrooms gives the building a lifespan beyond one class or even one era of pedagogy,
which, as Lee Furtick elucidates, are sure to evolve.
In 1974,
the discovery of a remarkably intact Australopithecus skeleton elucidated a key moment in human evolution.
She was famously nicknamed Lucy in reference to the Beatles, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
But we'd still love Lucy, where it's simply an homage to the light she shed.
You see, the Latin, loose, L-U-C, or lux,
L-U-X, puts the light in many English utterances, including the name Lucy.
Take, for instance, lucent, meaning glowing with light.
Luculent, meaning clear in thought or expression.
Luciferous, meaning bringing light or insight.
Or lucid, meaning clear, sane, and intelligible.
and elucidate, meaning to make clear or understandable.
Those last two words come from the Latin lucidus, which literally translates to lucid.
Lucidus, in turn, comes from the verb lucare, meaning to shine.