gives big picture (verb) explicate: clarify, expand
Detalii: explicate also contains the implication that the something of which an account is being given is more complicated or detailed - so while one may explain why a child is crying, one would explicate the meaning of a poem or implications of a legal document; early senses of explain were 'smooth out' and 'spread flat'
Sinonime: gradually, hardly, just barely, scarcely
Antonime: cloud,
complicate,
confuse, mystify,
obscure,
tangle