Word to the Wise: Extempore

By Early To Rise | Thu, Apr 10, 2008 |

  

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Something that’s "extempore" (ik-STEM-puh-ree) – Latin for "out of the time" – is done on the spur of the moment, without preparation.

Example (as used by Robert Harris in Archangel: "Kelso had already delivered his short paper… at the end of the previous day: delivered it in his trademark style – without notes, with one hand in his pocket, extempore, provocative."

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  • Bobs article definitely has set my male ego flying.

    I’m now sixty-one and starting over. I retired at forty-eight, moved to the Northeast Georgia Mountains with high intentions of relaxing, but also of finding work that would push my excite button. I found that job, but the company went out of business. So I began to look for another opportunity.

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