verb
- Perform without preparation.
- usage: "he extemporized a speech at the wedding"
- synonyms: improvize, ad-lib, extemporize, extemporise
- Manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand.
- usage: "after the hurricane destroyed our house, we had to improvise for weeks"
- synonyms: extemporize
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