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Main Entry:
recitation [res-i-tey-shuhn]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: reading to audience
Synonyms: address, appeal, declaiming, delivery, discourse, discoursing, discussion, exercise, holding forth, lecture, monologue, narrating, narration, oration, passage, performance, piece, playing, proclamation, recital, recounting, rehearsal, rendering, report, selection, soliloquizing, speaking, talk, telling
Main Entry: discourse
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: discuss, speak about
Synonyms: argue, chew*, comment, commentate, confab, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dilate upon, dispute, dissert, dissertate, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, give a meeting, harangue, hold forth, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, sermonize, talk, treat, voice
Antonyms: be quiet
Main Entry: discuss
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: talk over with another
Synonyms: altercate, argue, bounce off, canvass, compare notes, confabulate, confer, consider, consult with, contend, contest, converse, debate, deliberate, descant, discept, discourse about, dispute, dissert, dissertate, examine, exchange views on, explain, figure, get together, go into, groupthink, hash over, hold forth, jaw, kick about, knock around, moot, put heads together, reason about, review, sift, take up, thrash out, toss around, ventilate, weigh
Antonyms: be quiet
Main Entry: harangue
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give a long lecture
Synonyms: accost, address, apostrophize, buttonhole, chew out, declaim, exhort, get on a soapbox, go on about, hold forth, orate, perorate, rant, rave, soapbox, spiel*, spout, stump, talk to, yell at
Main Entry: lecture
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: give a lesson, speech
Synonyms: address, declaim, deliver, discourse, expound, get on a soapbox, give a talk, harangue, hold forth, orate, prelect, recite, speak, spiel*, spout, talk, teach
Main Entry: narrate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: describe, detail
Synonyms: characterize, chronicle, delineate, depict, descant, disclose, discourse, enumerate, expatiate, give an account of, hold forth, make known, paint, picture, portray, proclaim, recite, recount, rehearse, relate, repeat, report, reveal, set forth, spin, state, tell, tell a story, unfold
Antonyms: conceal, hide, suppress
Main Entry: patter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: gab, chatter
Synonyms: babble, blab, clack, hold forth, jabber, jaw, prate, prattle, rattle, spiel*, spout, tattle, yak, yakety-yak
Antonyms: be silent
Main Entry: recite
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: read out loud; narrate
Synonyms: account for, address, answer, chant, communicate, convey, declaim, delineate, deliver, describe, detail, discourse, dramatize, enact, enlarge, enumerate, expatiate, explain, give a report, give an account, give verbal account, hold forth, impart, interpret, itemize, mention, parrot, perform, picture, portray, quote, recapitulate, recount, reel off, rehearse, relate, render, repeat, reply, report, retell, soliloquize, speak, state, tell, utter
Main Entry: speak
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: address; give a lecture
Synonyms: argue, declaim, descant, discourse, get across, harangue, hold forth, orate, pitch, plead, prelect, recite, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, talk
Notes: say, speak, and tell are near synonyms, but say is usually followed by a statement or words actually uttered
Antonyms: listen
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