Speech
Nouns
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speech, faculty of speech
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locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle
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effusion. oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration
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speechifying
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soliloquy etc. Soliloquy
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allocution etc. Allocution
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conversation etc. Conversation
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salutatory : screed: valedictory [U.S.]. oratory
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elocution, eloquence
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rhetoric, declamation
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grandiloquence, multiloquence
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burst of eloquence
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facundity
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flow of words, command of words, command of language
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power of speech, gift of the gab
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spokesman
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prolocutor, interlocutor
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mouthpiece, Hermes
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orator, oratrix, oratress
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Demosthenes, Cicero
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rhetorician
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stump orator, platform orator
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speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore.
Verbs
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speak of
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say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to
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utter forth, pour forth
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breathe, let fall, come out with
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rap out, blurt out have on one's lips
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have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue. break silence
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open one's lips, open one's mouth
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lift one's voice, raise one's voice
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give the tongue, wag the tongue
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talk, outspeak
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put in a word or two, hold forth
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make a speech, deliver a speech etc. n.
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speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs
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have one's say, say one's say
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spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage
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expatiate etc. (speak at length) Diffuseness
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speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump [U.S.]. soliloquize etc. Soliloquy
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tell etc. (inform) Information
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speak to etc. Allocution
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talk together etc. Conversation. be eloquent etc. adj.
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have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab etc. n.. pass one's lips, escape one's lips
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fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.
Adjectives
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speaking etc.
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spoken etc. v.
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oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken
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eloquent, elocutionary
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oratorical, rhetorical
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declamatory
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grandiloquent etc. Ornament
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talkative etc. Loquacity
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Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian.
Adverbs
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orally etc. adj.
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by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of.
Phrases
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quoth he, said he etc.
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action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]
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pour the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]
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she speaks poignards and every word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]
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speech is but broken light upon the depth of the speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken" [G. Eliot]
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to try thy eloquence now 'tis time" [Antony and Cleopatra].