Explain and Test

Explain

Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.

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Test and explain are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Test" instead a verb "Explain".

Test verb - To put (something) to a test.

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Explain and test are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Explain" instead a verb "Test".

Nearby Words: testing, tested, tester, testable, testa

ability	explain ability	test ability
power	explain power	test power
strength	explain strength	test strength
knowledge	explain knowledge	test knowledge
Other words: time, way, skills, powers, theories, abilities.

Vol'jin laughingly dismissed it as an easy choice of freedom... only for the loa to explain the real test was if he would hesitate in choosing.

Source: Secret Test of Character
With faltering voice, he explain to a startled client that he was doing a Rorschach-test on his last client — who saw Muhammad, and thus felt obliged to stone him for showing the test.

Source: Useful Notes / The Prophet Muhammad
Fun with Foreign Languages: In the second movie, where Bridget's in a drugstore and tries to explain through a combination of mime and faltering German that she needs a pregnancy test.

Source: Literature / Bridget Jones

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