exorbitance
101exorbitant — [ɪg zɔ:bɪt(ə)nt] adjective (of a price or amount charged) unreasonably high. Derivatives exorbitance noun exorbitantly adverb Origin ME: from late L. exorbitant , exorbitare go off the track …
102extortion — n. 1. Exaction, illegal compulsion. 2. (Colloq.) Exorbitance, exorbitant charge …
103extravagance — n. 1. Excess, exorbitance, enormity, unreasonableness, preposterousness. 2. Irregularity, wildness, folly, excess, absurdity. 3. Prodigality, profusion, waste, lavish expenditure …
104exorbitancy — n. See exorbitance …
105exorbitant — adjective an exorbitant price, rate, demand etc is much higher than is reasonable or usual: It s a good restaurant but the prices are exorbitant. exorbitance noun (U) exorbitantly adverb …
106extravagance — n 1. prodigality, lavishness, profligacy, wastefulness, recklessness, spendthrift ways, folly, excess, exorbitance. 2. excessiveness, immoderateness, unreasonableness, undueness, inordinateness; outrageousness, preposter ousness, monstrousness;… …
107extreme — adj 1. exceptional, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, notable, outstanding, remarkable, Sl. hell of a; unusual, abnormal, unconventional, different, offbeat, exotic, foreign, strange, odd, bizarre, weird, eccentric, Inf. way out. Sl. far out;… …
108extremity — n 1. limit, outer limit, farthest point, horizon, the end of the earth; ambit, bound, boundary, border, frontier; periphery, margin, edge, rim, brim, brow, lip, ridge, verge, brink; ultimate, end, finale, termination, terminal, terminus. 2. limb …
109heroic — adj 1. brave, courageous, valiant, valorous, heroical, hero like, stout hearted, lionhearted, iron hearted, great hearted; virile, manly, manful, gallant, chivalrous, chivalric; intrepid, fearless, dauntless, aweless, dreadless, nervy, Sl. gutsy …
110immoderation — n 1. excess, excessiveness, inordi nateness, Obs. inordinacy; extremeness, extravagance, exorbitance, exorbitancy; lavishness, prodigality, pro fuseness. 2. unrestraint, abandon, self indulgence; wantonness, profligacy, dissipation,… …
