extemporize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
31
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""Will you please tell me whose music you have been playing?" . . . "It's nobody's, miss." "Do you mean you have been extemporizing all this time?""
- "But while some of his predecessors liked to extemporize, Obama prefers the message to be just so."
- "As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes."
- "The small jelly-speck, which we call the amoeba, has no organs save what it can extemporize as occasion arises."
- "The wine runs into pitchers, washing-basins, shards, chamber- vessels, and other extemporized receptacles."
- "His most famous words — "I have a dream" — were extemporized."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin ex tempore English extempore Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English extemporize From extempore + -ize.