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Expiscate

[EX-pis-keyt]

Part of speech: verb

Origin: Latin, 16th century

1.

To find out by skill or laborious investigation.

2.

To search out.

Examples of Expiscate in a sentence

"Through long periods of interrogation, the detective was eventually able to expiscate the whole story from the suspect."

"When I got in trouble at school, my mother always managed to expiscate the details from my brother."

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