Speech vs Perorate - What's the difference?
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As a noun speech is ( label) the faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate. As a verb perorate is to speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
speech English
Noun
( wikipedia speech)
(label) The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the ability to speak or to use vocalizations to communicate.
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(label) A session of speaking; a long oral message given publicly usually by one person.
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* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
- The constant design of these orators, in all their speeches , was to drive some one particular point.
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A style of speaking.
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A dialect or language.
* Bible, (w) iii. 6
- people of a strange speech
Talk; mention; rumour.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
- The dukedid of me demand / What was the speech among the Londoners / Concerning the French journey.
Derived terms
* after-dinner speech
* byspeech
* figure of speech
* pressure of speech
* pressured speech
* speech recognition
* speechwriter
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* speak
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perorate English
Verb
(perorat)
To speak or declaim at great length, especially in a pompous or grandiloquent manner; to harangue.
To make a peroration; to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech.
Related terms
* peroration
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