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81off-the-cuff — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Informal. Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought: ad lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, offhand, snap, spur of the moment, unrehearsed. See… …
82spur-of-the-moment — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no preparation or forethought: ad lib, extemporaneous, extemporary, extempore, impromptu, improvised, offhand, snap, unrehearsed. Informal: off the cuff. See PREPARED …
83Extemp. — ex tempore, extemporary, on the spur of the moment …
84choreography — Originally referring to dance notation, by the beginning of the twentieth century the term came to mean the art of making dances as this is understood in the context of Western theatre dance forms. In the radical social, political and artistic …
85modern dance — The wide spectrum of modern and postmodern dance on offer in the UK at the end of the twentieth century had its genesis in the 1960s, when small groups of people dissatisfied with ballet began to look for a new way of moving, a new aesthetic,… …
86extemporaneous — [ɪkˌstɛmpə reɪnɪəs, ɛk ] adjective another term for extemporary. Derivatives extemporaneously adverb extemporaneousness noun …
87extemporaneous — a. Unpremeditated, off hand, extemporary, extempore, improvised …
88extempore — I. ad. [L.] Suddenly, without premeditation, without preparation, off hand, on the spur of the moment. II. a. [L.] Extemporary, extemporaneous, improvised …
89ad lib — 1. verb halfway through the speech, she started ad libbing Syn: improvise, extemporize, speak impromptu, play it by ear, make it up as one goes along, wing it 2. adverb she spoke ad lib Syn: impromptu, extempore, without preparation, without… …
90extempore — 1. adjective an extempore speech Syn: impromptu, spontaneous, unscripted, ad lib, extemporary, extemporaneous; improvised, unrehearsed, unplanned, unprepared, off the top of one s head; informal off the cuff; formal ad libitum Ant: rehearsed 2.… …
