word for today 08.25.05 "expatiate"
expatiate \ek-SPAY-shee-ayt\, intransitive verb
1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail. 2. To move about freely; to wander.
After one too many beers, he tended to expatiate upon his favorite subject--himself.
Expatiate is from Latin expatiari, "to walk or go far and wide," from ex-, "out" + spatiari, "to walk about," from spatium, "space; an open space, a place for walking in."
1. To speak or write at length or in considerable detail. 2. To move about freely; to wander.
After one too many beers, he tended to expatiate upon his favorite subject--himself.
Expatiate is from Latin expatiari, "to walk or go far and wide," from ex-, "out" + spatiari, "to walk about," from spatium, "space; an open space, a place for walking in."
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