1.  explicate(v = verb.communication) explain - make plain and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"
is one way to inform
Derived forms noun explication₂, noun explication₁
Sample sentences: Sam and Sue explicate the movie

2.  explicate(v = verb.communication) develop, formulate - elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"
is one way to conjecture, hypothecate, hypothesise, hypothesize, speculate, suppose, theorise, theorize
Derived form noun explication₂
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something

   Evolved; unfolded. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

1.  To unfold; to expand; to lay open. Blackmore. [1913 Webster]

2.  To unfold the meaning or sense of; to explain; to clear of difficulties or obscurity; to interpret. [1913 Webster]
"The last verse of his last satire is not yet sufficiently explicated." [1913 Webster]

explicate, v.tr.
1 develop the meaning or implication of (an idea, principle, etc.).
2 make clear, explain (esp. a literary text).

Derivative:
explication n. explicative adj. explicator n. explicatory adj.

Etymology:
L explicare explicat- unfold (as EX-(1), plicare plicat- or plicit- fold)