This week's theme: words related to repartee.

ad lib (ad LIB) noun

   Improvised speech or music.

verb tr.

   To perform music, speech, etc. spontaneously.

verb intr.

   To improvise.

adjective

   Improvised, impromptu.

[From Latin ad libitum (at pleasure).]

Today's word in Visual Thesaurus: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=ad+lib

  "From delivery of scripted material to covering slip-ups to ad-libbing,
   Aznil is probably one of the few in the business who has a sixth sense,
   comedy wise."
   Awards: Wide-skrin Disasters at Anugerah; Malay Mail (Kuala Lumpur,
   Malaysia); Aug 28, 2003.

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