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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | accent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stress or pitch in pronunciation |
| Synonyms: | accentuation, articulation, beat, cadence, emphasis, enunciation, force, inflection, intonation, meter, modulation, pronunciation, rhythm, stroke, timbre, tonality, tone |
| Main Entry: | articulation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | clear, coherent speech |
| Synonyms: | delivery, diction, enunciation, expression, pronunciation, saying, speaking, statement, talking, utterance, verbalization, vocalization, voicing |
| Antonyms: | mispronunciation |
| 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: | dialect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local speech |
| Synonyms: | accent, argot, cant, idiom, jargon, language, lingo, localism, patois, patter, pronunciation, provincialism, regionalism, slang, terminology, tongue, vernacular, vocabulary |
| Notes: | a dialect is geographical or social variety of speech, whereas dialectic is a form of reasoning or argumentation that focuses on resolving contradictions |
| 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: | elocution |
| 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: | inflection |
| 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: | intonation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inflection |
| Synonyms: | accent, articulation, emphasis, enunciation, modulation, pitch, pronunciation, sound, tonality, tone, tone of voice |
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