Explicate and Protract

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

• Lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer.
  • usage: "We prolonged our stay"; "She extended her visit by another day"; "The meeting was drawn out until midnight"
  • synonyms: prolong, extend, draw out

• (n.) Tedious continuance or delay.
• (v.t.) To put off to a distant time; to delay; to defer; as, to protract a decision or duty.
• (v.t.) To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.
• (v.t.) To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
• (v.t.) To extend; to protrude; as, the cat can protract its claws; -- opposed to retract.