elocutionary

  • 41winky — 1. For someone who is very chicky, very cutsie, someone you could see writing you a cute note with i s dotted with hearts and URAQT pi written at the end. Describes a stereotypical teeny bopper. 2. Anything overly cute, sappy, sentimental, etc.… …

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  • 42winky — 1. For someone who is very chicky, very cutsie, someone you could see writing you a cute note with i s dotted with hearts and URAQT pi written at the end. Describes a stereotypical teeny bopper. 2. Anything overly cute, sappy, sentimental, etc.… …

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  • 43elocution — [ˌɛlə kju:ʃ(ə)n] noun the skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation. Derivatives elocutionary adjective elocutionist noun Origin ME: from L. elocutio(n ), from eloqui (see eloquence) …

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  • 44elocution — noun (U) good clear speaking in public, involving voice control, pronunciation etc: elocution lessons elocutionary adjective elocutionist noun (C) …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 45bearing — n Bearing, deportment, demeanor, mien, port, presence are comparable when they denote the way in which or the quality by which a person outwardly manifests his personality and breeding. Bearing is the most general of these words; it may imply… …

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  • 46oratorical — adj 1. rhetorical, Speech. elocutionary, declamatory; eloquent, articulate, well spoken, silver tongued, Archaic. facund, Obs. facundious, Ciceronian; (all of speech) poetic, graceful, easy, facile, flowing, fluent, glib, slick, smooth,… …

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  • 47elocution — /ɛləˈkjuʃən / (say eluh kyoohshuhn) noun 1. manner of speaking or reading in public: *In all other respects his elocution made my late grandfather sound like Leslie Howard. –clive james, 1980. 2. the study and practice of spoken delivery,… …

  • 48recitation — /rɛsəˈteɪʃən/ (say resuh tayshuhn) noun 1. the act of reciting. 2. a reciting or repeating of something from memory, especially formally or publicly. 3. an elocutionary delivery of a piece of poetry or prose, without the text, before an audience …

  • 49elocution — [el΄ə kyo͞o′shən] n. [ME ellocucioun < L elocutio < pp. of eloqui: see ELOQUENT] 1. style or manner of speaking or reading in public 2. the art of public speaking or declaiming: now often associated with a studied or artificial style of… …

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  • 50elocute — verb declaim in an elocutionary manner The poet elocuted beautifully • Derivationally related forms: ↑eloquent, ↑elocution • Hypernyms: ↑declaim, ↑recite • Verb Frames …

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