Explicate and Augment

verb

• Make plain and comprehensible.
  • usage: "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
  • synonyms: explain
• Elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses.
  • usage: "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
  • synonyms: formulate, develop

• (v.t.) To unfold; to expand; to lay open.
• (a.) Evolved; unfolded.
• (v.t.) To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret.

verb

• Enlarge or increase.
  • usage: "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East"
• Grow or intensify.
  • usage: "The pressure augmented"

• (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
• (v.t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
• (v.i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
• (n.) A vowel prefixed or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
• (v.t.) To add an augment to.