A man speaks frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant, and her contractions are only two minutes apart!"
"Is this her first child?" the doctor queries.
"No, you idiot!" the man shouts. "This is her husband!"
- condition of extreme adversity. [latin: related to *extreme]
EXTRICATE
v. (-ting) (often foll. By from) free or disentangle from a difficulty etc. extricable adj. Extrication n. [latin tricae perplexities]
EXTRINSIC
adj. - not inherent or intrinsic.
- (often foll. By to) extraneous; not belonging. extrinsically adv. [latin extrinsecus outwardly]
EXTROVERT
—n. - outgoing person.
- person mainly concerned with external things. —adj. Typical of or with the nature of an extrovert. extroversion n. Extroverted adj. [latin verto turn]
