Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Serving to explain; tending to expound.
- Setting forth, or set forth, as an instance; specifically, in logic, singular; relating to a single individual. Thus, an expository syllogism is one in which the middle term is a singular.
Wiktionary
- adj. Serving to explain, explicate, or elucidate; expositive; of or relating to exposition.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. serving to expound or set forth
Examples
“What strange power gives blog authors the ability to write a loose ramble and call it 'expository'?”
“But crossing that kind of barrier requires rhetorical tools that go beyond plain expository argument.”
“Unfortunately, there have been an awful lot of books about World War II, and The Postmistress, while intelligent and well meaning, doesn’t ultimately have much new to add ... the dialogue lacks snap ... and [Blake] engages in expository overload that’s really not needed for such a well-known tale.”
The Postmistress: Summary and book reviews of The Postmistress by Sarah Blake.
“The latter, as a rule, is the more important; but if, as in the case of Origen, more attention be paid to the former, the homily will be called expository rather than moral or hortatory.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“There's a new 'blog about the blog' blog on SBNation called expository post.”
“One could say that Dixon proceeds through a kind of expository shorthand -- "Rings twice more and stops" -- that while "attached" to the character as a frame of reference is otherwise a way of dispensing with the overscrupulous explication of consciousness that so often and so tediously passes for "psychological realism" in contemporary literary fiction.”
“These are the same kind of expository lectures as might be given in a history or sociology class by an overzealous teaching assistant, speaking on the assumption that his students are mostly brain-dead and need to be spoon-fed or they will starve.”
“And the notion that derision is a tool of logic or 'expository' illumination.”
“The next time you sit down to compose a corporate image brochure or virtually any kind of expository text, ask yourself the question: I know that no one wants to read what I am going to write, so how can I write something they will want to read?”
How to write a corporate image brochure people will truly want to read « Articles « Literacy News
“He may be low-key speaker, but he has plenty to say, and most of it is gold, rather than the âOh, hereâs where Vicki Vale is shown into the Batcaveâ kind of expository stuff found on many commentaries.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘expository’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Words related to knowledge
Words that relate to learning, knowing, being enlightened...
revelation, eureka, awakening, idea, sapient, astute, canny, intelligent, wise, sharp, shrewd, informed and 467 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Reading Vocab
ulterior, warrant, syllogism, precious, impiety, maroon, aigrette, batiste, topsy-turvy ago, midnight crush, cantankerous, slovenly and 180 more...
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five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
ineffable, septuagenarian, sesquipedalian, argyle, coalescence, profundity, vivisepulture, defenestrate, concatenate, usurp, diatribe, veracious and 461 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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annscann's list
My words, generally
bavarois, bawbee, bawd, bawdry, libertine, russophobe, rubicund, gossamer, persnickety, claptrap, gesticulate, schadenfreudian and 199 more...
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frequent toefl
Words that I do not know or unsure for toefl
appurtenances, aptitude, arbitrary, arboretum, argot, arrears, avocation, avuncular, badger, bait, warden, bane and 428 more...
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GRE
abase, abjure, abnegate, abrogate, abscond, acidulous, acrimonious, admonish, adumbrate, adventitious, ambagious, anathema and 344 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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Words
apoplectic, absolve, accentuate, accost, acrimony, adjudicate, adulate, affront, agrarian, alacrity, ambivalence, ascetic and 120 more...
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arnon's Words
treatise, enthrall, nimble, hinder, serene, transhumanism, meliorism, denote, apropos, equivalence, valence, orthogonal and 156 more...
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geekery
allophone, affix, colon, -esque, apostrophe, semi-colon, textually, whorfian, adjectival, full stop, anthropomorphism, hyperbole and 10 more...
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