explicate
verb (used with object)
to make plain or clear; explain; interpret.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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“Plumly shows us . . . how passionately engaged he is — with the life he is writing, the poems he is explicating, the era he is recreating,” Genoways wrote.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 13, 2019