“Luculent” (LOO-kyuh-lunt) – from the Latin for “light” – means clear, easily understood.
Example (as used by Dan Schnabel in American Mathematical Monthly): “Yet it is always luculent, even when the concepts being expressed become somewhat sophisticated.”
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