Definition of speak

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

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Drawl :: Drawl (v. i.) To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc..
Ecbole :: Ecbole (n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who speaks.
Verbose :: Verbose (a.) Abounding in words; using or containing more words than are necessary; tedious by a multiplicity of words; prolix; wordy; as, a verbose speaker; a verbose argument..
Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed..
Prolocutor :: Prolocutor (n.) One who speaks for another.
Return :: Return (v. i.) To speak in answer; to reply; to respond.
Unspeak :: Unspeak (v. t.) To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay..
Pastoral :: Pastoral (n.) A poem describing the life and manners of shepherds; a poem in which the speakers assume the character of shepherds; an idyl; a bucolic.
Polyglot :: Polyglot (a.) Versed in, or speaking, many languages..
Allegory :: Allegory (n.) A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject..
Misspeak :: Misspeak (v. t.) To utter wrongly.
Chant :: Chant (v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
Address :: Address (v. t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address..
Tonguy :: Tonguy (a.) Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker..
Deprave :: Deprave (n. t.) To speak ill of; to depreciate; to malign; to revile.
Bespeak :: Bespeak (v. t.) To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor..
Eulogize :: Eulogize (v. t.) To speak or write in commendation of (another); to extol in speech or writing; to praise.
Blasphemy :: Blasphemy (n.) An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity..
Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..
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