Words I don't like to see being used

elucidate

Here's a bad example of usage, from Express Science: Here, we elucidate this question by using 26 years of satellite data to drive a simple physical model for estimating the temperature response of the ocean mixed layer to changes in aerosol loadings.

Now, why don't the authors just answer the question!? No, they elucidate it. But to explain a question is not the same thing as to answer it.