| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | patter, sales pitch |
| Synonyms: | chatter, empty talk, jabber, jive, line*, pitch*, sales talk, song and dance |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | speak to a formal gathering |
| Synonyms: | approach, bespeak, call, deliver speech, deliver talk, discourse, discuss, get on a soapbox, give speech, give talk, greet, hail, lecture, memorialize, orate, pitch, pontificate, root for, sermonize, spiel*, spout, stump, take the floor, talk |
| Main Entry: | declaim |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | proclaim; get on a soapbox |
| Synonyms: | attack, bloviate, blow hot air, declare, decry, denounce, harangue, hold forth, inveigh, lecture, mouth, orate, perorate, pile it on, proclaim, rail, rant, recite, soapbox, speak, spiel*, spout, talk big |
| Main Entry: | declaration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assertion of belief or knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, admission, advertisement, affirmation, allegation, announcement, answer, attestation, averment, avowal, bomb*, broadcast, communication, deposition, disclosure, enunciation, explanation, exposition, expression, hot air, information, notice, notification, oath, pitch, presentation, profession, promulgation, protestation, publication, remark, report, revelation, say so, saying, spiel*, statement, story, testimony, two cents' worth, utterance |
| Antonyms: | denial, disavowal, retraction |
| 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 |
| 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: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, speech |
| Synonyms: | address, allocution, chalk talk, discourse, disquisition, harangue, instruction, oration, pep talk, pitch*, soapbox, spiel*, talk |
| 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: | line |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hint; influential communication |
| Synonyms: | clue, indication, information, lead, patter, persuasion, pitch, prepared speech, song and dance, spiel* |