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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