Perhaps welcome is too strong a word, but you catch my meaning.

Vivayn caught the sense of the words if not their full meaning.

Judging from Data's expression, he hadn't quite caught her meaning.

We were quite close once, if you catch my meaning.

Suddenly I catch his meaning, the sirens in the street.

Brand at least had caught his meaning, was off in the right direction.

She caught my meaning, and her face aged as I watched.

She's a few candles short of a black mass, if you catch my meaning.

He caught her meaning, of course, as she had meant him to do.

Or should it let students struggle to catch their meaning, as many say they now do?