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extemporize

English

  1. 🔊 manage in a makeshift way
    “after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks”
  2. 🔊 perform without preparation
    “he extemporized a speech at the wedding”

Similar words

improvise improvize ad-lib extemporise improvise ad-lib be caught napping be surprised be taken unawares be unprepared cook up dash off do offhand fake go off half-cocked have no plan improvisate improvise jury-rig knock off lash up make up play by ear scrap the plan