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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation |
| Synonyms: | declamation, delivery, diction, dramatic, eloquence, enunciation, expression, locution, oratory, pronunciation, public speaking, reading, rhetoric, speech, speechcraft, speechmaking, utterance, voice culture, voice production |
| Antonyms: | inarticulation, mispronouncement |
| Main Entry: | diction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style of speech; articulation |
| Synonyms: | command of language, delivery, elocution, eloquence, enunciation, expression, fluency, gift of gab, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording |
| Main Entry: | oratory |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | public speaking |
| Synonyms: | articulation, declamation, diction, elocution, eloquence, grandiloquence, rhetoric, speaking, speech, speechifying, speechmaking |
| Main Entry: | rhetoric |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wordiness; long speech |
| Synonyms: | address, balderdash, big talk, bombast, composition, discourse, elocution, eloquence, flowery language, fustian, grandiloquence, hot air, hyperbole, magniloquence, oration, oratory, pomposity, rant, verbosity |
| Antonyms: | conciseness |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | talk |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, communication, conversation, dialect, dialogue, diction, discussion, double talk, doublespeak, elocution, enunciation, expressing, expression, idiom, intercourse, jargon, language, lingo, locution, mother tongue, native tongue, oral communication, palaver, parlance, prattle, pronunciation, prose, speaking, spiel, tone, tongue, utterance, verbalization, vernacular, vocal expression, vocalization, vocalizing, voice, voicing |
| Antonyms: | listening, quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | pronunciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | way something is said |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, diction, drawl, elocution, enunciation, orthoepy, phonemics, phonetics, phonology, speech, syllabification, twang, utterance |
| Main Entry: | public speaking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivering an address |
| Synonyms: | art of speaking, declamation, elocution, oratory, rhetoric, speaking, speechification, speechmaking, stump oratory, tub-thumping |
| Main Entry: | way with words |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command of language |
| Synonyms: | articulateness, articulation, elocution, eloquence, expressiveness, facility of speech, fluency, gift of gab, oratory, silver tongue, word power |
| Main Entry: | pronunciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation |
| Synonyms: | accentuation, diction, elocution, enunciation, inflection, intonation, utterance, voicing |
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