Today's Word "Extemporize"
To improvise
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extemporize \ik-STEM-puh-ryz\ (verb tr., intr.) - 1 : To perform (speak, sing, play, etc.) without preparation or practice; to improvise. 2 : To do something in a makeshift manner.
"Rather than confronting the basic root or source of the controversies, Rick was more familiar with his own style of extemporizing in the expectation that the incident would be forgotten as time went by."
From extempore, from Latin ex tempore (out of the time), from tempus (time). Other words that are formed from the same Latin root: temporary, tempo, temper, contemporary, tempest and tense.
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