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Extolment
- noun - an expression of approval and commendation; "he always appreciated praise for his work"
Extorsive
- - Serving or tending to extort.
Extorting
- verb - get or cause to become in a difficult or laborious manner
- obtain by coercion or intimidation; "They extorted money from the executive by threatening to reveal his past to the company boss"; "They squeezed money from the owner of the business by threatening him"
- obtain through intimidation
Extortion
- noun - an exorbitant charge
- the felonious act of extorting money (as by threats of violence)
- unjust exaction (as by the misuse of authority); "the extortion by dishonest officials of fees for performing their sworn duty"
Extracted
- verb - calculate the root of a number
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- extract by the process of distillation; "distill the essence of this compound"
- get despite difficulties or obstacles; "I extracted a promise from the Dean for two new positions"
- obtain from a substance, as by mechanical action; "Italians express coffee rather than filter it"
- remove, usually with some force or effort; also used in an abstract sense; "pull weeds"; "extract a bad tooth"; "take out a splinter"; "extract information from the telegram"
- separate (a metal) from an ore
- take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy
Extractor
- noun - a mechanism in a firearm that pulls an empty shell case out of the chamber and passes it to the ejector
- an apparatus that uses centrifugal force to separate particles from a suspension
- an instrument for extracting tight-fitting components
Extradite
- verb - hand over to the authorities of another country; "They extradited the fugitive to his native country so he could be tried there"
Extrapose
- unknown - to move word or phrase to the end of a sentence for emphasis
Extravert
- adjective - (psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings
- being concerned with the social and physical environment