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EXTEMPORIZING
Verb
extemporizing
present participle of extemporize
This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
Source: Wiktionary
EXTEMPORIZE
Ex*tem"po*rize, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Extemporized(); p. pr. & vb. n. Extemporizing().]
Definition: To speak extempore; especially, to discourse without special preparation; to make an offhand address.
Ex*tem"po*rize, v. t.
Definition: To do, make, or utter extempore or off-hand; to prepare in great haste, under urgent necessity, or with scanty or unsuitable materials; as, to extemporize a dinner, a costume, etc. Themistocles . . . was of all men the best able to extemporize the right thing to be done. Jowett (Thucyd. ). Pitt, of whom it was said that he could extemporize a Queen's speech Lord Campbell.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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