find out &c. 480a the meaning &c. 516 of; read; spell out, make out;
decipher, unravel, disentangle; find the key of, enucleate, resolve, solve; read between the lines.
     account for; find the cause, tell the cause &c. 153 of;
 throw light upon, shed light upon, shed new light upon, shed fresh light upon; clear up, clarify, elucidate.
     illustrate, exemplify; unfold, expound, comment upon, annotate;
popularize &c. (render intelligible) 518.
     take in a particular sense, understand in a particular sense, receive
in a particular sense, accept in a particular sense; understand by, put a construction on, be given to understand. 
     Adj. explanatory, expository; explicative, explicatory;
exegetical[obs3]; construable.
     polyglot; literal; paraphrastic, metaphrastic[obs3];
consignificative[obs3], synonymous; equivalent &c. 27. 
     Adv. in explanation &c. n.; that is to say, id est, videlicet, to wit,
namely, in other words.
     literally, strictly speaking; in plain, in plainer terms, in plainer
words, in plainer English; more simply.

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     #523.  Misinterpretation. —­ N. misinterpretation, misapprehension,
misunderstanding, misacceptation|, misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis[obs3]; eisegesis[obs3]; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake &c. 495.
     misrepresentation, perversion, exaggeration &c. 549; false coloring,
false construction; abuse of terms; parody, travesty; falsification &c. (lying) 544. 
     V. misinterpret, misapprehend, misunderstand, misconceive, misspell,
mistranslate, misconstrue, misapply; mistake &c. 495.
     misrepresent, pervert; explain wrongly, misstate; garble &c. (falsify)
544; distort, detort|; travesty, play upon words; stretch the sense, strain the sense, stretch the meaning, strain the meaning, wrest the sense, wrest the meaning; explain away; put a bad construction on, put a false construction on; give a false coloring.
     be at cross purposes, play at cross purposes. 
     Adj. misinterpreted &c. v.; untranslated, untranslatable.

     #524.  Interpreter.—­ N. interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent,
explainer; demonstrator.
     scholiast, commentator, annotator; metaphrast[obs3], paraphrast[obs3];
glossarist[obs3], prolocutor.
     spokesman, speaker, mouthpiece.
     dragoman, courier, valet de place, cicerone, showman;
oneirocritic[obs3]; (Edipus; oracle &c. 513)

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     #525.  Manifestation.—­ N. {ant. 526} manifestation; plainness &c.
adj.; plain speaking; expression; showing &c. v.; exposition, demonstration; exhibition, production; display, show; showing off; premonstration|. exhibit[Thing shown].
     indication &c. (calling attention to) 457. publicity &c. 531;
disclosure &c. 529; openness &c. (honesty) 543, (artlessness)