The laboratory manual provided explicit instructions for calibrating the spectrometer before each measurement.
实验室手册为每次测量前校准光谱仪提供了明确的说明。
An architectural critique describes a new building's exterior in purely descriptive terms for its first section, withholding all evaluative judgment until a clearly marked second section explicitly labeled 'Assessment.'
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A memoir chapter describes the narrator's grandmother's kitchen in intricate sensory detail across several pages, a level of detail the narrator explicitly admits, in an aside, is likely embellished by decades of nostalgic memory.
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Which choice best defines “explicit”?
B — Clear, fully stated. “explicit” means clear, fully stated.
Which word means “clear, fully stated”?
C — explicit. “explicit” means clear, fully stated.
explicit — clear, fully stated. In Chinese: 直言的，明确的.
explicit is pronounced /ɪkˈsplɪsɪt/.
The laboratory manual provided explicit instructions for calibrating the spectrometer before each measurement. (实验室手册为每次测量前校准光谱仪提供了明确的说明。)
clear, definite, unequivocal — all close in meaning to explicit (clear, fully stated).
vague, ambiguous — each the opposite of explicit (clear, fully stated).
Yes. explicit is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
ex(out)+plicit(fold)