React and Explain

verb

• Show a response or a reaction to something.
  • synonyms: respond
• Act against or in opposition to.
  • usage: "She reacts negatively to everything I say"
  • synonyms: oppose
• Undergo a chemical reaction; react with another substance under certain conditions.
  • usage: "The hydrogen and the oxygen react"

• (v.t.) To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
• (v.i.) To act upon each other; to exercise a reciprocal or a reverse effect, as two or more chemical agents; to act in opposition.
• (v.i.) To return an impulse or impression; to resist the action of another body by an opposite force; as, every body reacts on the body that impels it from its natural state.

verb

• Make plain and comprehensible.
  • usage: "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
  • synonyms: explicate
• Define.
  • usage: "The committee explained their plan for fund-raising to the Dean"
• Serve as a reason or cause or justification of.
  • usage: "Your need to sleep late does not excuse your late arrival at work"; "Her recent divorce may explain her reluctance to date again"
  • synonyms: excuse

• (a.) To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand.
• (v.i.) To give an explanation.
• (a.) To make plain, manifest or intelligible; to clear of obscurity; to expound; to unfold and illustrate the meaning of; as, to explain a chapter of the Bible.