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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instructive speech with a moral |
| Synonyms: | address, advice, discourse, doctrine, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, lesson, moralism, pastoral, preach, preaching, preachment, tirade |
| Main Entry: | discourse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dialogue; dissertation |
| Synonyms: | address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, gabfest, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, tractate, treatise, utterance, verbalization |
| Antonyms: | quiet, silence |
| Main Entry: | exhortation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | warning, urging |
| Synonyms: | admonition, advice, beseeching, bidding, caution, counsel, encouragement, enjoinder, entreaty, goading, incitement, instigation, lecture, persuasion, preaching, sermon |
| Main Entry: | harangue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | long lecture |
| Synonyms: | address, chewing out, declamation, diatribe, discourse, exhortation, hassle, jeremiad, oration, philippic, reading out, screed, sermon, speech, spiel*, spouting, tirade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech of criticism |
| Synonyms: | castigation, censure, chiding, dressing-down, going-over, harangue, moralism, preaching, preachment, rebuke, reprimand, reproof, scolding, sermon, talking-to, telling off |
| Main Entry: | monologue |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech by one person |
| Synonyms: | address, descant, discourse, disquisition, harangue, lecture, sermon, soliloquy, speech, stand-up bit, talk |
| Notes: | monologue comes from Greek and soliloquy from Latin, but both mean 'speaking alone' |
| Antonyms: | dialogue |
| Main Entry: | moral |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, proverb |
| Synonyms: | adage, aphorism, apophthegm, axiom, dictum, epigram, gnome, maxim, meaning, message, moralism, motto, point, precept, rule, saw, saying, sermon, significance, truism |
| Notes: | moral (noun) means the lesson or principle of a story or event - (adjective) relating to lessons or principles of right and wrong; morale is a state of individual psychological well-being based upon a sense of confidence and usefulness and purpose or the spirit of a group that makes the members want the group to succeed |
| Main Entry: | oration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
| Synonyms: | address, chalk talk, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk, pitch*, sermon, soapbox, spiel* |
| Antonyms: | print, writing |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | requiem |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hymn, mass |
| Synonyms: | canticle, ceremony, chant, death song, dirge, elegy, eulogy, funeral hymn, liturgy, memorial service, monody, psalm, religious song, ritual, sermon, threnody, worship |
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