extemporize

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   perform without preparation

   They extemporized a speech at the wedding.

2. 2
   verb

   To perform or speak without prior planning or thought; to act in an impromptu manner; to improvise.

   "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?"

3. 3
   verb

   To adapt, improvise, or devise action or speech in an impromptu or spontaneous manner.

   As the music came fresher on their ears, they danced to its cadence, extemporizing new steps and attitudes.

From extempore + -ize.

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