Word to the Wise: Interpolate

To "interpolate"- from the Latin for "to polish up," hence to falsify – is to insert new or foreign material into a text or conversation.

Example (as used by Richard Corliss in Time magazine): "Twenty years earlier, [Richard] Rodgers was not so pleased when, at the request of the star Belle Baker, [Irving] Berlin had written a song for her to interpolate into an otherwise all-Rodgers-and-Hart score for the Broadway musical ‘Betsy.’"

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