a grandiloquent speech

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• Speech — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Speech >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 speech speech faculty of speech Sgm: N 1 locution locution talk parlance verbal intercourse prolation oral communication word of mouth parole palaver prattle …   English dictionary for students

• speech — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Oral communication Nouns 1. speech, talk, faculty of speech; locution, parlance, expression, vernacular, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle; effusion, discourse; soliloquy;… …   English dictionary for students

• grandiloquent — bombastic Styles of Speech …   Phrontistery dictionary

• grandiloquent — gran dil·o·quent || græn dɪlÉ™kwÉ™nt adj. pompous, excessively eloquent (of speech or writing) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Styles of Speech — Here we have 54 words referring to manners or styles of speaking, words that use the suffix loquent , loquence , or loquy , from Latin loqui (to speak). While in an age of text messaging, public speaking has lost its once vaunted status as a… …   Phrontistery dictionary

• anthropoglot — Any animal, such as a parrot, which is capable of copying human speech …   Grandiloquent dictionary

• deesis — A speech or request made to a supreme being …   Grandiloquent dictionary

• logomancy — Divination by words or by speech …   Grandiloquent dictionary

• maledicent — One who is addicted to abusive speech …   Grandiloquent dictionary

• panegyric — A speech or eulogy which praises a person …   Grandiloquent dictionary

• pleniloquent — Always talking or full of speech …   Grandiloquent dictionary