Explain and Instruct

Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Instruct and explain are semantically related. in education topic. In some cases you can use "Instruct" instead a verb "Explain".

Instruct verb - To cause to acquire knowledge or skill in some field.

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Explain and instruct are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Instruct".

Nearby Words: instruction, instructor, instructive, instructing

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In his Alan Wake review, he criticizes the game's episodic chapter structure, commenting "I've always felt that games that out-and-out instruct you to stop playing them would be difficult to explain to the marketing department".

Source: Hilarious In Hindsight / Zero Punctuation

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