Definition of speak

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Speak (v. i.) To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to speak..

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Straightway :: Straight-spoken (a.) Speaking with directness; plain-spoken.
Emphasis :: Emphasis (n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience..
Short-spoken :: Short-spoken (a.) Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt..
Intelligibly :: Intelligibly (adv.) In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly..
Splutter :: Splutter (v. i.) To speak hastily and confusedly; to sputter.
Misspeak :: Misspeak (v. i.) To err in speaking.
Digress :: Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking..
Mute :: Mute (n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.
Correctness :: Correctness (n.) The state or quality of being correct; as, the correctness of opinions or of manners; correctness of taste; correctness in writing or speaking; the correctness of a text or copy..
Cite :: Cite (v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
Amoebaeum :: Amoebaeum (n.) A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.
Speaker :: Speaker (n.) One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides over, or speaks for, a delibrative assembly, preserving order and regulating the debates; as, the Speaker of the House of Commons, originally, the mouthpiece of the House to address the king; the Speaker of a House of Representatives..
Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..
Honey-tongued :: Honey-tongued (a.) Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive.
Here :: Here (adv.) In this place; in the place where the speaker is; -- opposed to there.
Epilogize :: Epilogize (v. i. & t.) To speak an epilogue to; to utter as an epilogue.
Falter :: Falter (v. & n.) To hesitate; to speak brokenly or weakly; to stammer; as, his tongue falters..
Rostrum :: Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking; the pulpit or platform occupied by an orator or public speaker..
Person :: Person (n.) One of three relations or conditions (that of speaking, that of being spoken to, and that of being spoken of) pertaining to a noun or a pronoun, and thence also to the verb of which it may be the subject..
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..
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