2021-02-10 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Temporize & extemporize

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ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Temporize & extemporize

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง temporize = ‘TEM-puh-rahyz’

ออกเสียง extemporize = ‘ik-STEM-puh-rahyz’

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Is it Time to temporize?

Temporize comes from the Medieval Latin verb temporizare

("to pass the time"), which itself comes from the Latin noun tempus,

meaning "time."

"Tempus" is also the root of such words as "tempo," "contemporary," and "temporal."

If you need to buy some time, you might resort totemporizing

- but you probably won't win admiration for doing so.

"Temporize" can have a somewhat negativeconnotation.

For instance, a political leader faced with a difficult issue

might temporize by talking vaguely about possible solutions

without actually doing anything.

The point of such temporizing is to avoid taking definite

- and possibly unpopular

- action, in hopes that the problem will somehow go away.

But the effect is often just to make matters worse.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

extemporize

Did You Know?

Extemporize means to say ordo something on the spur of the moment,

an appropriate meaning given the word's history.

"Extemporize" was coined by adding the suffix -ize to Latin ex tempore,

meaning "instantaneously" or"on the spur of the moment."

"Ex tempore," in turn, was formed by combining "ex"

and a form of the noun tempus, meaning"time."

Incidentally, "ex tempore" was also borrowed wholesale into English

(where it means "extemporaneously").

Other descendents of Latin ex tempore include the now rare "extemporal"

and "extemporary" (both synonyms of "extemporaneous"),

and, as you have no doubt guessed by now, "extemporaneous" itself.

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions

Temporize & extemporize

Temporize means “to compromise,” 

“to act evasively so as to gain time or advantage,”

“to postpone action or a decision”:

“We need relief; don’t temporize any longer.”

“Many a public official has found that he must temporize if he wishes to hold his office.”

Extemporize means to “speak with little preparation,”

“to say something without advance notice of having to speak”:

“A glib speaker, Senator Goff extemporized for nearly an hour.”

Temporize applies principally toactions,

extemporize to words.’