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
The poem proceeds by image and association rather than expository logic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
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
The choice to only gradually unfurl what’s going on — there are no clunky expository speeches here to establish the rules of the world for us — draws us in.
From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024
Structural parallelism works not just in poetic and hortatory passages but also in ordinary expository prose.
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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