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talk n.
formal talk to audience n.

NOUN

talk

Synonyms

STRONGEST

conversation dialogue discussion expression language tone voice

STRONG

accent articulation communication dialect diction doublespeak elocution enunciation idiom intercourse jargon lingo locution palaver parlance prattle pronunciation prose speaking spiel tongue utterance verbalization vernacular vocalization vocalizing voicing

WEAK

double talk expressing mother tongue native tongue oral communication vocal expression

Antonyms

STRONGEST

quiet silence

STRONG

standard

WEAK

listening

NOUN

formal talk to audience

Synonyms

STRONGEST

address appeal commentary debate lecture paper rhetoric sermon

STRONG

allocution bombast declamation diatribe discourse disquisition dissertation eulogy exhortation harangue homily invocation keynote opus oration oratory panegyric parlance parley pitch recitation salutation spiel stump tirade valedictory

WEAK

chalk talk pep talk prelection

Antonyms

WEAK

listening quiet silence

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speeches

"He was amazing. He was so, good. I was crying the whole time. I think I permanently cried for like three hours straight during all the speeches."

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

In case we didn’t get it, these themes and lessons are spoken out loud by Jane in big declarative speeches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

The eerie mood is accentuated by an introductory film projected on the distant stone and a twangy voice intoning excerpts from the Lincoln speeches etched in the atrium above ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026

The message is a frequent theme in Paxton’s stump speeches.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

If you read Madisons speeches against assumption in the House during the spring of 1790, you get the impression that his core objections were economic.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis