Definition of speak

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

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Indicible :: Indicible (a.) Unspeakable.
Enlarge :: Enlarge (v. i.) To speak or write at length; to be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate; to dilate.
Dictation :: Dictation (n.) The speaking to, or the giving orders to, in an overbearing manner; authoritative utterance; as, his habit, even with friends, was that of dictation..
Parlante :: Parlante (a. & adv.) Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.
Fable :: Fable (v. t.) To feign; to invent; to devise, and speak of, as true or real; to tell of falsely..
Speaking :: Speaking (a.) Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness..
Chant :: Chant (v. t.) Twang; manner of speaking; a canting tone.
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To talk or converse in; to utter or pronounce, as in conversation; as, to speak Latin..
Ineffably :: Ineffably (adv.) In a manner not to be expressed in words; unspeakably.
Apologist :: Apologist (n.) One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity..
Modulate :: Modulate (v. t.) To vary or inflect in a natural, customary, or musical manner; as, the organs of speech modulate the voice in reading or speaking..
Employ :: Employ (v. t.) To use; to have in service; to cause to be engaged in doing something; -- often followed by in, about, on, or upon, and sometimes by to; as: (a) To make use of, as an instrument, a means, a material, etc., for a specific purpose; to apply; as, to employ the pen in writing, bricks in building, words and phrases in speaking; to employ the mind; to employ one's energies..
Provincialism :: Provincialism (n.) A word, or a manner of speaking, peculiar to a province or a district remote from the mother country or from the metropolis; a provincial characteristic; hence, narrowness; illiberality..
Voice :: Voice (v. t.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper.
Haffle :: Haffle (v. i.) To stammer; to speak unintelligibly; to prevaricate.
Prophet :: Prophet (n.) One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc..
Unembarrassed :: Unembarrassed (a.) Not perplexed in mind; not confused; as, the speaker appeared unembarrassed..
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
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..
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