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• v  make lighter or brighter
• v  make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear
• v  add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
• a  tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance
  an illuminating lecture

• Cities can save energyand moneyby illuminating public spaces with LEDs, or light-emitting diodes.
• His first film, Clerks, was little more than guys talking, and that was enough, since Smith not only knew all the bad words but also could twist them into illuminating comedy.
• This illuminating exhibition draws from the extensive collection of pro- and anti-suffrage materials in the Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections, particularly the Carrie .

• light
• illume
• illumine
• light up
• illuminate
• clear
• clear up
• shed light on
• crystallize
• crystallise
• crystalize
• crystalise
• straighten out
• sort out
• enlighten
• elucidate
• enlightening
• informative

• unenlightening

News & Articles

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• Win A Night At The San Francisco Opera
  Fascinating, illuminating & provocative, don't miss the world premiere of San Francisco Opera's The Gospel of Mary Magdalene! Enter here for your chance to win tickets…
  June 10, 2013 - CBS San Francisco
• Book Review: Core HTML5 Canvas
  eldavojohn writes "Core HTML5 Canvas is a book that focuses on illuminating HTML5 game development for beginning and intermediate developers. While HTML and JavaScript have long been a decent platform for displaying text and images, Geary provides a great programming learning experience that facilitates the canvas element in HTML5. In addition, smatterings of physics engines, performance ...
  June 10, 2013 - Slashdot
• Iona Rozeal Brown creates Afro-Japanese art mashup
  The defining medium of our time has to be the mashup. There are mashup videos, mashup songs, mashup literature — wherever there’s a will to combine disparate bits of entertainment or art, there’s a mashup. And when it’s done right, the result can be something fresh and illuminating. Artist Iona Rozeal Brown creates vibrant paintings inspired by that mashup sensibility, combining hip-hop imagery ...
  June 10, 2013 - PRI Public Radio International

Quotes

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• Robert Menendez in FOXNews
  The Associated Press investigation was illuminating and a great service, but it was not an official governmental study, and I doubt your agency will act on an outside group's findings,wrote Sen. Bob Menendez, DN.J., in a letter sent Wednesday...
• Ted Haggard in Denver Post
  We all wanted to know why I developed such incongruity in my life,Haggard wrote. "Thankfully, with the tools we gained there, along with the powerful way God has been illuminating His Word and the Holy Spirit has been convicting and...
• Janet Maslin in MSNBC
  The New York Times' Janet Maslin called it a "consolidating and newly illuminating work. For the right reader, that combination is irresistible."