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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accent, intonation |
| Synonyms: | articulation, change, emphasis, enunciation, modulation, pitch, pronunciation, sound, timbre, tonality, tone, tone of voice, variation |
| Notes: | in the jargon of grammar, the forms of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be arrayed in declensions or inflections; the forms of verbs are said to be arrayed in conjugations |
| Antonyms: | monotone |
| Main Entry: | cadence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rhythm |
| Synonyms: | accent, beat, count, inflection, intonation, lilt, measure, meter, modulation, pulse, rhythmus, swing, tempo, throb |
| Main Entry: | delivery |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation of message |
| Synonyms: | accent, diction, elocution, emphasis, enunciation, inflection, intonation, modulation, pronunciation, speech, utterance |
| Antonyms: | quiet, secrecy |
| 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: | locution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | phrasing |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, dialect, diction, expression, inflection, language, phraseology |
| Main Entry: | melody |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | harmony, tune |
| Synonyms: | air, aria, assonance, carillon, chant, chime, concord, consonance, descant, diapason, euphony, inflection, lay, lyric, measure, melodiousness, music, musicality, refrain, resonance, run, song, strain, theme, tunefulness, unison |
| Antonyms: | cacophony, disharmony |
| Main Entry: | tone |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pitch, volume |
| Synonyms: | accent, emphasis, force, inflection, intonation, modulation, resonance, strength, stress, timbre, tonality |
| Main Entry: | voice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expression, language |
| Synonyms: | articulation, call, cry, delivery, exclamation, inflection, intonation, modulation, murmur, mutter, roar, shout, song, sound, speech, statement, tone, tongue, utterance, vent, vocalization, vociferation, words, yell |
| Main Entry: | modulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | timbre |
| Synonyms: | inflection, intonation, pitch, tone |
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