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expatiate

verb/ɪkˈspeɪʃɪeɪt/

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister

To speak or write at length and in detail about a subject.

Given the slightest encouragement, he would expatiate on the history of the railways for hours.

Similar: elaborate, dilate, expound

Origin: From Latin exspatiari 'to wander, digress', from ex- + spatiari 'to walk'.

Topic: discourse in General English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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