Definition of speak

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Speak (v. i.) To give sound; to sound.

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Reasonable :: Reasonable (n.) Governed by reason; being under the influence of reason; thinking, speaking, or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason; just; rational; as, the measure must satisfy all reasonable men..
Backbite :: Backbite (v. i.) To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
Bespeaker :: Bespeaker (n.) One who bespeaks.
Ventriloquize :: Ventriloquize (v. i.) To practice ventriloquism; to speak like a ventriloquist.
Address :: Address (v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost..
Irishism :: Irishism (n.) A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.
Speakership :: Speakership (n.) The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives..
Declaim :: Declaim (v. i.) To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week..
Bated :: Bated (a.) Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath..
Tone :: Tone (n.) A whining style of speaking; a kind of mournful or artificial strain of voice; an affected speaking with a measured rhythm ahd a regular rise and fall of the voice; as, children often read with a tone..
Tonguy :: Tonguy (a.) Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker..
Answer :: Answer (n.) To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to..
Plain-spoken :: Plain-spoken (a.) Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words..
Look :: Look (v. i.) To show one's self in looking, as by leaning out of a window; as, look out of the window while I speak to you. Sometimes used figuratively..
Reticence :: Reticence (n.) A figure by which a person really speaks of a thing while he makes a show as if he would say nothingon the subject.
Jeer :: "Jeer (v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker..
Holder-forth :: Holder-forth (n.) One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher.
Outspoken :: Outspoken (a.) Speaking, or spoken, freely, openly, or boldly; as, an outspoken man; an outspoken rebuke..
Remark :: Remark (n.) To take notice of, or to observe, mentally; as, to remark the manner of a speaker..
Belittle :: Belittle (v. t.) To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.
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