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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Rabble :: Rabble (v. i.) To speak in a confused manner.
Stammer :: Stammer (v. i.) To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.
Action :: Action (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings..
Gesticulate :: Gesticulate (v. i.) To make gestures or motions, as in speaking; to use postures..
Apophasis :: Apophasis (n.) A figure by which a speaker formally declines to take notice of a favorable point, but in such a manner as to produce the effect desired. [For example, see Mark Antony's oration. Shak., Julius Caesar, iii. 2.].
Speechmaker :: Speechmaker (n.) One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a public assembly.
Snuffle :: Snuffle (v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound..
Speaking :: Speaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spea.
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..
Muffle :: Muffle (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen..
Salutatory :: Salutatory (a.) Containing or expressing salutations; speaking a welcome; greeting; -- applied especially to the oration which introduces the exercises of the Commencements, or similar public exhibitions, in American colleges..
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To address; to accost; to speak to.
Contradict :: Contradict (v. t.) To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn..
Gag :: Gag (n.) Something thrust into the mouth or throat to hinder speaking.
Alternation :: Alternation (n.) The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister.
I :: I (object.) The nominative case of the pronoun of the first person; the word with which a speaker or writer denotes himself.
Accost :: Accost (v. t.) To speak to first; to address; to greet.
Ecbole :: Ecbole (n.) A digression in which a person is introduced speaking his own words.
Drawling :: Drawling (n.) The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl.
Amplify :: Amplify (v. i.) To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
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