explicate
explication
There were some explicatory notes to accompany the exhibition.
According to the explicatory leaflet, the show will move to New York next year.
His first collection of poems seems to contain more explicatory prose than actual poetry.
This paper includes explicatory clarification of some of my claims.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Defining & explaining
account (to someone) for something
accountability
adumbrate
adumbration
annotation
annotator
belabour
demythologize
disabuse
extenuate
indescribably
inexpressibly
justificatory
lay something out
limn
outline
sketch
spell
trace
what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom