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Excellent :: Excellent (a.) Excelling; surpassing others in some good quality or the sum of qualities; of great worth; eminent, in a good sense; superior; as, an excellent man, artist, citizen, husband, discourse, book, song, etc.; excellent breeding, principles, aims, action..

Offscouring :: Offscouring (n.) That which is scoured off; hence, refuse; rejected matter; that which is vile or despised..

Anthology :: Anthology (n.) A discourse on flowers.

Order :: Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource..

Discomfort :: Discomfort (v. t.) Discouragement.

Discourtship :: Discourtship (n.) Want of courtesy.

Speak :: Speak (v. i.) To utter a speech, discourse, or harangue; to adress a public assembly formally..

Topic :: Topic (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head..

Vivacity :: Vivacity (n.) Life; animation; spiritedness; liveliness; sprightliness; as, the vivacity of a discourse; a lady of great vivacity; vivacity of countenance..

Briefness :: Briefness (n.) The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

Appall :: Appall (v. i.) To grow faint; to become weak; to become dismayed or discouraged.

Application :: Application (n.) Hence, in specific uses: (a) That part of a sermon or discourse in which the principles before laid down and illustrated are applied to practical uses; the moral of a fable. (b) The use of the principles of one science for the purpose of enlarging or perfecting another; as, the application of algebra to geometry..

Scourer :: Scourer (n.) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.

Punctuation :: Punctuation (n.) The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning..

Magniloquence :: Magniloquence (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Discoursive :: Discoursive (a.) Inclined to converse; conversable; communicative; as, a discoursive man..

Preface :: Preface (v. t.) To introduce by a preface; to give a preface to; as, to preface a book discourse..

Discourse :: Discourse (v. t.) To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.

Discourse :: Discourse (v. i.) To treat of something in writing and formally.

Chapfallen :: Chapfallen (a.) Having the lower chap or jaw drooping, -- an indication of humiliation and dejection; crestfallen; discouraged. See Chopfallen..

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