expository
adjective/ɪkˈspɒzətri/
/ɪkˈspɑːzətɔːri/
(formal)- intended to explain or describe something
- The film suffers from too much expository dialogue.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryExpository is used with these nouns:- passage
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