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- cadenza
collapse - a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music related words >
- acciaccatura,
- appoggiatura,
- arabesque,
- cadence,
- coloratura,
- division,
- embellishment,
- extempore,
- fioritura,
- flight,
- flourish,
- grace,
- grace note,
- hot lick,
- impromptu,
- improvisation,
- incidental,
- incidental note,
- interpolation,
- lick,
- long mordent,
- mordent,
- ornament,
- passage,
- pralltriller,
- riff,
- roulade,
- run,
- single mordent,
- turn,
- vamp
- improvised
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- done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer" related words >
- ad hoc,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- band-aid,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvisational,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improviso,
- jury-rigged,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- precipitate,
- provisional,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- stopgap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary,
- tentative,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- casual,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporized,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- impromptu,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improviso,
- impulsive,
- informal,
- jury-rigged,
- makeshift,
- off the cuff,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- precipitate,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- stopgap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied
- out of hand
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- out of control; "the riots got out of hand" related words >
- abandoned,
- ad lib,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- beyond control,
- breachy,
- by ear,
- contumacious,
- defiant,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporarily,
- extempore,
- fractious,
- go-go,
- immoderate,
- impromptu,
- incontinent,
- incorrigible,
- indocile,
- indomitable,
- indulgent,
- insuppressible,
- intemperate,
- intractable,
- irrepressible,
- lax,
- licentious,
- loose,
- nonrestrictive,
- obstreperous,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- offhand,
- on sight,
- out of control,
- permissive,
- rampant,
- recalcitrant,
- refractory,
- reinless,
- resistant,
- resisting,
- restive,
- riotous,
- shrewish,
- unbiddable,
- unbridled,
- unchecked,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrollable,
- uncontrolled,
- uncurbed,
- unforced,
- ungovernable,
- ungoverned,
- uninhibited,
- unmalleable,
- unmanageable,
- unmastered,
- unmeasured,
- unmoldable,
- unmuzzled,
- unreined,
- unrepressed,
- unreserved,
- unrestrained,
- unrestrictive,
- unruly,
- unsubdued,
- unsubmissive,
- unsuppressed,
- wanton,
- wild
- interpolation
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- (mathematics) calculation of the value of a function between the values already known
- a message (spoken or written) that is introduced or inserted; "with the help of his friend's interpolations his story was eventually told"; "with many insertions in the margins" related words >
- addition,
- affix,
- allonge,
- appendix,
- approximation,
- aside,
- cadenza,
- coda,
- codicil,
- commentary,
- differentiation,
- division,
- embedment,
- enclitic,
- entrance,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- episode,
- equation,
- evolution,
- extempore,
- extrapolation,
- flourish,
- graft,
- grafting,
- hot lick,
- impaction,
- impactment,
- implantation,
- impromptu,
- improvisation,
- infix,
- infixion,
- infusion,
- injection,
- inoculation,
- insert,
- insertion,
- insinuation,
- integration,
- intercalation,
- interjection,
- interlineation,
- interlocution,
- introduction,
- intromission,
- inversion,
- involution,
- lick,
- marginalia,
- multiplication,
- notation,
- note,
- obiter dictum,
- parenthesis,
- penetration,
- perfusion,
- postscript,
- practice,
- prefix,
- proclitic,
- proportion,
- reduction,
- remark,
- rider,
- riff,
- scholia,
- side remark,
- subtraction,
- suffix,
- tail,
- tessellation,
- tossing-in,
- transformation,
- transplant,
- transplantation,
- vamp
- impromptu
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- an extemporaneous speech or remark; "a witty impromptu must not sound premeditated"
- a short musical passage that seems to have been made spontaneously without advance preparation related words >
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- ad-libbing,
- arrangement,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- by ear,
- cadenza,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporarily,
- extemporariness,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- extemporized,
- flourish,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- hot lick,
- improvisation,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improvision,
- improviso,
- interpolation,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged,
- lick,
- makeshift,
- measure,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- on sight,
- out of hand,
- playing by ear,
- precipitate,
- pro tempore,
- quick,
- riff,
- rough-and-ready,
- snap,
- stopgap,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary measure,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied,
- vamp
- unpremeditated
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- not prepared or planned in advance; "asked an unpremeditated question"
- not premeditated related words >
- a bit previous,
- ad lib,
- ad-lib,
- advanced,
- automatic,
- casual,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- coincidental,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporized,
- far ahead,
- forward,
- gut,
- half-baked,
- half-cocked,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- involuntary,
- last-minute,
- makeshift,
- natural,
- not firm,
- off the cuff,
- offhand,
- overhasty,
- oversoon,
- precipitate,
- precocious,
- premature,
- previous,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- rough-and-ready,
- rushed,
- snap,
- spontaneous,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- too early,
- too soon,
- tripped up,
- unadvised,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- uncalculated,
- unconcocted,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- uncontrived,
- uncrystallized,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- undevised,
- unguarded,
- unguided,
- unhatched,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unjelled,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unmatured,
- unmeant,
- unmeditated,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unprompted,
- unpurposed,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unthought,
- unthought-of,
- untimely,
- unwilled,
- unwitting
- improvisation
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- an unplanned expedient
- a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation) related words >
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- ad lib,
- ad-libbing,
- answer,
- arrangement,
- artifice,
- authorship,
- beginning,
- cadenza,
- coinage,
- conception,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- contriving,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- creation,
- creative effort,
- demarche,
- device,
- devising,
- disqualification,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporariness,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- fabrication,
- flourish,
- generation,
- gimmick,
- hatching,
- hot lick,
- impromptu,
- improvision,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- interpolation,
- invention,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- lack of preparation,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- lick,
- makeshift,
- making do,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- mintage,
- move,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- origination,
- pis aller,
- planlessness,
- playing by ear,
- pro tempore,
- resort,
- resource,
- riff,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- tactic,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary expedient,
- temporary measure,
- trick,
- trump,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unpreparedness,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vamp,
- vulnerability,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- action,
- ad hoc measure,
- ad lib,
- ad-lib,
- ad-libbing,
- answer,
- arrangement,
- artifice,
- bat out,
- botch,
- bungle,
- contrivance,
- cook up,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- dash off,
- demarche,
- device,
- do anyhow,
- do by halves,
- do carelessly,
- do offhand,
- dodge,
- effort,
- expedient,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporariness,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- extemporize,
- fake,
- fake up,
- fudge up,
- gimmick,
- impromptu,
- improvisate,
- improvisation,
- improvise,
- improvision,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- knock off,
- knock out,
- knock together,
- lash up,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- make up,
- makeshift,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- move,
- patch,
- patch together,
- patch up,
- pis aller,
- play by ear,
- playing by ear,
- pound out,
- pro tempore,
- resort,
- resource,
- rough out,
- roughcast,
- roughhew,
- scrap the plan,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- slap up,
- solution,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- strike off,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- tactic,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary expedient,
- temporary measure,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- toss together,
- trick,
- trifle with,
- trump,
- vamp,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- wing it,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- unstudied
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- lacking knowledge gained by study often in a particular field; "is unstudied in Latin as he is in may other matters"
- not by design or artifice; unforced and impromptu; "an air of unstudied spontaneous utterance is apt to be painstakingly achieved"; "simple unstudied charm" related words >
- Bohemian,
- ad-lib,
- affable,
- artless,
- automatic,
- casual,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- colloquial,
- common,
- conversational,
- cordial,
- degage,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- everyday,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporized,
- familiar,
- folksy,
- free and easy,
- gracious,
- gut,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- haymish,
- homely,
- homey,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- informal,
- ingenuous,
- involuntary,
- irregular,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- naive,
- natural,
- nonstandard,
- offhand,
- offhanded,
- plain,
- precipitate,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- relaxed,
- rough-and-ready,
- simple,
- snap,
- sociable,
- spoken,
- spontaneous,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- substandard,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- tripped up,
- unadvised,
- unaffected,
- unarranged,
- unartificial,
- unassuming,
- unbegun,
- uncalculated,
- unceremonious,
- unconcocted,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- unconstrained,
- uncontrived,
- unconventional,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- undevised,
- uneducated,
- unexamined,
- unexplored,
- unhatched,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- unliterary,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unmeditated,
- unofficial,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unscanned,
- unschooled,
- unsearched,
- unsifted,
- unsophisticated,
- untutored,
- unweighed,
- unwilled,
- vernacular
- spontaneous
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- happening or arising without apparent external cause; "spontaneous laughter"; "spontaneous combustion"; "a spontaneous abortion" related words >
- ad lib,
- arbitrary,
- automated,
- automatic,
- automatous,
- autonomous,
- bat,
- baton,
- billy,
- billy club,
- bludgeon,
- casual,
- club,
- cybernated,
- discretional,
- discretionary,
- elective,
- extemporaneous,
- extempore,
- free,
- free will,
- gratuitous,
- gut,
- ill-advised,
- ill-considered,
- ill-devised,
- immediate,
- impetuous,
- impromptu,
- improvised,
- impulsive,
- inadvertent,
- indeliberate,
- independent,
- inherent,
- innate,
- instinctive,
- instinctual,
- involuntary,
- libidinal,
- mace,
- mechanical,
- natural,
- nightstick,
- nonmandatory,
- off the cuff,
- offered,
- offhand,
- optional,
- proffered,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- self-acting,
- self-active,
- self-adjusting,
- self-closing,
- self-controlled,
- self-cooking,
- self-determined,
- self-determining,
- self-directed,
- self-directing,
- self-dumping,
- self-governed,
- self-governing,
- self-lighting,
- self-operative,
- self-regulative,
- self-starting,
- self-winding,
- self-working,
- semiautomatic,
- simple,
- snap,
- spontoon,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- subliminal,
- truncheon,
- unadvised,
- unannounced,
- unasked,
- unbesought,
- unbidden,
- uncalculated,
- uncalled-for,
- uncoerced,
- uncompelled,
- unconscious,
- unconsidered,
- unconstrained,
- undeliberate,
- undeliberated,
- undesigned,
- unforced,
- unguarded,
- uninfluenced,
- unintended,
- unintentional,
- uninvited,
- unlearned,
- unmeditated,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unpressured,
- unprompted,
- unrehearsed,
- unrequested,
- unrequired,
- unsolicited,
- unsophisticated,
- unsought,
- unstudied,
- unthinking,
- unwilled,
- unwitting,
- voluntary,
- volunteer,
- willful
- ad lib
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- without advance preparation; "he spoke ad lib" related words >
- a beneplacito,
- a discretion,
- ad arbitrium,
- ad libitum,
- ad-libbing,
- al piacere,
- arrangement,
- at choice,
- at pleasure,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- at will,
- be caught napping,
- be surprised,
- be taken unawares,
- be unprepared,
- by ear,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- cook up,
- dash off,
- disqualification,
- do offhand,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporarily,
- extemporariness,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- extemporize,
- extemporized,
- fake,
- go off half-cocked,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- have no plan,
- impromptu,
- improvisate,
- improvisation,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improvision,
- improviso,
- incapability,
- incompetence,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged,
- knock off,
- lack of preparation,
- lash up,
- make up,
- makeshift,
- measure,
- nonpreparation,
- nonpreparedness,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- on sight,
- out of hand,
- planlessness,
- play by ear,
- playing by ear,
- precipitate,
- pro tempore,
- rough-and-ready,
- scrap the plan,
- snap,
- stopgap,
- strike off,
- surprised,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary measure,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- tripped up,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- undevised,
- unfitness,
- unfittedness,
- unforced,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unpreparedness,
- unprimed,
- unqualification,
- unqualifiedness,
- unreadiness,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unstudied,
- unsuitability,
- unsuitableness,
- unsuitedness,
- vamp,
- vulnerability,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- wing it,
- without coercion
- action,
- ad hoc,
- ad hoc measure,
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- ad-libbing,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- answer,
- arrangement,
- artifice,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- bung,
- check valve,
- cock,
- contrivance,
- cork,
- counterfeit,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- demarche,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- dodge,
- dummy,
- effort,
- emergency,
- equivalent,
- ersatz,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporariness,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- fake,
- faucet,
- gimmick,
- imitation,
- impromptu,
- improvisation,
- improvisational,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improvision,
- improviso,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- lid,
- makeshift,
- makeshifty,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- mock,
- move,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- peg,
- phony,
- pin,
- pinch,
- pis aller,
- playing by ear,
- plug,
- pro tempore,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- recourse,
- refuge,
- reserve,
- resort,
- resource,
- rough-and-ready,
- rough-and-tumble,
- sea cock,
- secondary,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- solution,
- spare,
- spigot,
- spike,
- spile,
- spill,
- step,
- stop,
- stopper,
- stopple,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- substitute,
- tactic,
- tap,
- temporary,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary expedient,
- temporary measure,
- tentative,
- token,
- trick,
- trump,
- unrehearsed,
- utility,
- valve,
- vicarious,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
- offhand
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- casually thoughtless or inconsiderate; "an offhand manner"; "she treated most men with offhand contempt"
- in a casually inconsiderate manner; "replied offhand, his mind a million miles away"; "she threw him over offhandedly without even a Dear-John letter"
- without previous thought or preparation; "couldn't give the figures offhand"; "we decided offhand to go to Canada"; "she had made these remarks offhandedly" related words >
- Bohemian,
- abrupt,
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- affable,
- airily,
- airy,
- aloof,
- any old way,
- any which way,
- anyhow,
- at short notice,
- at sight,
- blase,
- brusque,
- bunglingly,
- by ear,
- by the by,
- by the way,
- careless,
- carelessly,
- casual,
- casually,
- cavalier,
- clumsily,
- cool,
- cordial,
- cursorily,
- cursory,
- curt,
- degage,
- devil-may-care,
- disregardant,
- disregardful,
- disregardfully,
- distant,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- en famille,
- en passant,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneously,
- extemporarily,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- familiar,
- familiarly,
- flippant,
- folksy,
- forgetful,
- forgetfully,
- free and easy,
- glib,
- gracious,
- haphazardly,
- haymish,
- heedless,
- heedlessly,
- helter-skelter,
- hit and miss,
- hit or miss,
- homely,
- homey,
- impromptu,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improviso,
- in passing,
- inattentively,
- incidentally,
- inconsiderate,
- inconsiderately,
- indifferent,
- informal,
- informally,
- insouciant,
- irregular,
- jury-rigged,
- lackadaisical,
- lazy,
- light-hearted,
- loose,
- makeshift,
- messily,
- natural,
- naturally,
- nonchalant,
- oblivious,
- off the cuff,
- off the hip,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhanded,
- offhandedly,
- on sight,
- once over lightly,
- out of hand,
- parenthetically,
- perfunctorily,
- perfunctory,
- plain,
- plainly,
- promiscuously,
- reckless,
- recklessly,
- regardless,
- regardlessly,
- relaxed,
- relaxedly,
- respectless,
- sans ceremonie,
- simple,
- simply,
- slapdash,
- sloppily,
- smooth,
- sociable,
- spur-of-the-moment,
- stopgap,
- superficial,
- superficially,
- tactless,
- tactlessly,
- thoughtless,
- thoughtlessly,
- unaffected,
- unaffectedly,
- unassuming,
- unassumingly,
- unceremonious,
- unceremoniously,
- unconcerned,
- unconstrained,
- unconstrainedly,
- unconventional,
- undiplomatic,
- ungracious,
- unguardedly,
- unheedful,
- unheedfully,
- unheeding,
- unheedingly,
- uninterested,
- unmindful,
- unmindfully,
- unofficial,
- unofficially,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unsolicitous,
- unsolicitously,
- unstudied,
- untactful,
- unthinking,
- unthinkingly,
- unvigilantly,
- unwarily,
- without ceremony
- vamp
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- piece of leather forming the front part of the upper of a shoe
- an improvised musical accompaniment
- provide (a shoe) with a new vamp; "revamp my old boots"
- act seductively with (someone)
- piece (something old) with a new part; "vamp up an old speech"
- make up; "vamp up an excuse for not attending the meeting" related words >
- Aspasia,
- Circe,
- Delilah,
- Don Juan,
- Jezebel,
- Lorelei,
- Messalina,
- Parthenope,
- Phryne,
- Siren,
- Thais,
- Vorspiel,
- ad-lib,
- adventuress,
- allure,
- attract,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- bewitch,
- brighten up,
- brush up,
- cadenza,
- captivate,
- captive,
- carry away,
- cast a spell,
- catch,
- charm,
- charmer,
- concert overture,
- conquest,
- cook up,
- coquette,
- courtesan,
- curtain raiser,
- dash off,
- date,
- demimondaine,
- demimonde,
- demirep,
- descant,
- do offhand,
- do up,
- dramatic overture,
- draw on,
- enamor,
- enchant,
- enchanter,
- enchantress,
- endear,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- enthrall,
- enticer,
- entrance,
- extempore,
- extemporize,
- fake,
- fascinate,
- femme fatale,
- fire brigade,
- fire department,
- fire fighter,
- fire warden,
- fire-chaser,
- fire-eater,
- fireman,
- fix,
- fix up,
- flirt,
- flourish,
- forest fire fighter,
- freshen,
- furbish,
- furbish up,
- gold,
- gold digger,
- harem girl,
- hetaera,
- hold in thrall,
- honey,
- hot lick,
- houri,
- hypnotize,
- impromptu,
- improvisate,
- improvisation,
- improvise,
- infatuate,
- inflame with love,
- interpolation,
- intrigue,
- introduction,
- inveigler,
- jury-rig,
- knock off,
- lash up,
- lick,
- make up,
- mesmerize,
- odalisque,
- operatic overture,
- overhaul,
- overture,
- patch,
- play by ear,
- polish,
- polish up,
- prelude,
- rebuild,
- recondition,
- reconstruct,
- refurbish,
- renovate,
- repair,
- retouch,
- revamp,
- revive,
- riff,
- rub up,
- scrap the plan,
- seduce,
- seducer,
- seductress,
- shine,
- siren,
- smokechaser,
- smokejumper,
- spell,
- spellbind,
- spruce,
- spruce up,
- steady,
- strike off,
- strumpet,
- sweet patootie,
- sweetheart,
- sweetie,
- tantalize,
- teaser,
- tempt,
- tempter,
- temptress,
- throw off,
- throw together,
- tone up,
- toss off,
- toss out,
- touch up,
- transport,
- vamp up,
- vampire,
- voluntary,
- volunteer fireman,
- whip up,
- whomp up,
- whore,
- wing it,
- witch
- makeshift
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- something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency related words >
- action,
- ad hoc,
- ad hoc measure,
- ad lib,
- ad libitum,
- ad-lib,
- ad-libbing,
- adulterated,
- agent,
- alternate,
- alternative,
- analogy,
- answer,
- arrangement,
- artifice,
- backup,
- band-aid,
- blemished,
- caught napping,
- caught off balance,
- caught short,
- change,
- changeling,
- comparison,
- contrivance,
- copy,
- counterfeit,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- damaged,
- defective,
- deficient,
- demarche,
- deputy,
- dernier ressort,
- device,
- dodge,
- double,
- dummy,
- effort,
- emergency,
- equal,
- equivalent,
- erroneous,
- ersatz,
- exchange,
- expediency,
- expedient,
- extemporaneous,
- extemporaneousness,
- extemporariness,
- extemporary,
- extempore,
- extemporization,
- extemporized,
- fake,
- fallible,
- faulty,
- fill-in,
- found wanting,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- gimmick,
- haphazard,
- hasty,
- imitation,
- immature,
- impaired,
- imperfect,
- imprecise,
- impromptu,
- improvisation,
- improvisational,
- improvisatorial,
- improvise,
- improvised,
- improvision,
- improviso,
- impure,
- inaccurate,
- inadequate,
- incomplete,
- inexact,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- lacking,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- locum tenens,
- makeshifty,
- maneuver,
- means,
- measure,
- mediocre,
- metaphor,
- metonymy,
- mixed,
- mock,
- move,
- next best thing,
- not perfect,
- off,
- off-the-cuff,
- offhand,
- partial,
- patchy,
- personnel,
- phony,
- pinch,
- pinch hitter,
- pis aller,
- playing by ear,
- precipitate,
- pro tempore,
- provisional,
- proxy,
- recourse,
- refuge,
- relief,
- replacement,
- representative,
- reserve,
- reserves,
- resort,
- resource,
- ringer,
- rough-and-ready,
- second string,
- secondary,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- short,
- sign,
- sketchy,
- slapdash,
- snap,
- solution,
- spare,
- spares,
- stand-in,
- step,
- stopgap,
- stratagem,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- sub,
- substituent,
- substitute,
- substitution,
- succedaneum,
- superseder,
- supplanter,
- surprised,
- surrogate,
- symbol,
- synecdoche,
- tactic,
- taken aback,
- taken by surprise,
- taken unawares,
- temporary,
- temporary arrangement,
- temporary expedient,
- temporary measure,
- tentative,
- third string,
- token,
- trick,
- tripped up,
- trump,
- unarranged,
- unbegun,
- unconcocted,
- uncontrived,
- undeliberated,
- understudy,
- undeveloped,
- undevised,
- uneven,
- unfinished,
- unhatched,
- unmade,
- unmanufactured,
- unorganized,
- unperfected,
- unplanned,
- unpremeditated,
- unprepared,
- unprimed,
- unready,
- unrehearsed,
- unsound,
- unstudied,
- unthorough,
- utility,
- utility player,
- vicar,
- vicarious,
- vice-president,
- vice-regent,
- wanting,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition
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