curr-, cur-, cor-, cour-

A verbal or written expression or discussion on a particular theme, often in a formal setting: The audience found James’ discourse on installing ceiling fans informative and even entertaining.

To speak and to write in a formal and lengthy manner: The convention resulted in a boring affair because too many of the speakers were discoursing for too long instead of getting to the point of the issues. © ALL rights are reserved.
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A formal writer or speaker; someone who has much to say, often in an annoying manner: Anne is a talented discourser during the business meetings, but she usually talks beyond her time limit.

Pertaining to a lengthy and a wide field of subjects, or topics including extra material which is not necessary to what is being written or spoken about: The speaker at the convention gave a discursive presentation that wandered from one topic to another one about information which was not relevant to the main subject. © ALL rights are reserved.

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A reference to talking or to writing about many different things in a way that is not highly organized: Glenda's sister is a newspaper reporter who avoids any tendency to discursively write contents that are not well structured and well planned.

1. A short trip or an outing usually made for fun: When Elinda and Karl made their excursion to the lake, it became a wonderful swimming party.
2. A low cost roundtrip: Mike and Laura's honeymoon was nothing more than a two day excursion to Disneyland.
3. A group on a short pleasure trip: The school's excursion next week will be going to the big art exhibition.
4. A detour or digression from the main topic or focus: Some students were taking an excursion from the subject that was assigned for discussion.

1. Descriptive of a detour or a digression from a main topic or focus or abruptly changing directions: Tim's excursive explanation about how the dent in the fender of his father's car happened tends to make his parents dubious about what really took place.
2. Pertaining to a veering from point to point or wandering off the subject; erratic behavior: Oliver's elderly friend has been having excursive imaginations about things that are not true. © ALL rights are reserved.

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Pertaining to activities outside of the regular courses offered by educational institutions, or even outside of someone's everyday schedule: Larry's trips to the beach are extracurricular and have nothing to do with his biology class, as he claims. © ALL rights are reserved.

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1. To receive or to acquire something that is typically unpleasant; such as, financial debt: Jason and Elva incurred a lot of damage to their house during the recent tornado.
2. To bring negative attention upon one's self as a result of bad behavior or actions: Tony incurred the anger of the history teacher when he was caught texting in class. © ALL rights are reserved.
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1. A military invasion or a raid into enemy territory: The foreign government denied that its soldiers had made an incursion across the international border.

The navy of that nation is too weak to stop the incursion of rebel forces.

2. The action of going into a place without permission: Only the metal gate stopped the would-be thief's incursion into the neighbor's tool shed. © ALL rights are reserved.

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Descriptive of an invasion or a hostile attack; invasive: The ants made another incursive entrance into Lina's kitchen today.

1. Communications or business dealings between groups or people: The two companies have had extensive intercourse for decades.
2. An intimate relationship between a man and a woman: In many places, intercourse is lawful only between married couples.

1. To happen or to take place: The auto accident occurred at the corner of Greenway Road and 56th Street.
2. To exist or to appear naturally: Large deposits of silver occur in Bolivia, South America, and they have helped to shape the economic development of that nation.
3. To come to one's mind or to be thought of: While watching the late TV movie, it suddenly occurred to Jim that he had forgotten to finish his homework.

1. An action or fact of something happening: The people of the town avoided the old house because of several unexplained occurrences that recently took place there.

Traffic jams are a daily occurrence at several intersections in town; especially, when people are going to work in the morning or returning home after work.

An actual or observable event: Tornados were big occurrents in many parts of the United States this year.