expository
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For all of the film’s expository merit, for all of the care and efficiency Hughes exhibited in creating such wonderful and instantly lovable women, “Pretty in Pink” flubs the landing.
From Salon • Feb. 28, 2026
With judicious trimming, particularly of the occasional puddle of expository or repetitive dialogue, the play would gain a tauter pace.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 26, 2025
Plus, coming into “Dune: Prophecy” as a stone-cold uninitiate is a challenge for which the script compensates using a combination of summary via narration and a brief, expository title card.
From Salon • Nov. 17, 2024
There might be a little too much description, and long, learned, expository passages coming out of the mouths of police sergeants.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2024
The interweaving of the personal and the philosophical in this excerpt is being used as an expository device, to help us understand the issues that Spinoza wrote about.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vocabulary lists containing expository
Jim Burke's Academic Vocabulary List
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TEKS ELAR Academic Vocabulary List (5th-7th grades)
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100 SAT Words Beginning with "E"
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