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   expatiate

   /ɪkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. speak or write in detail about: "she expatiated on working-class novelists"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘roam freely’): from Latin exspatiari ‘move beyond one's usual bounds’, from ex- ‘out, from’ + spatiari ‘to walk’ (from spatium ‘space’).

   Derivatives

   • 1. expatiation noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • P

     3

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • I

     1

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • E

     1

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