Definition of speak

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Speak (v. t.) To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell; to declare orally; as, to speak the truth; to speak sense..

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Speaker :: Speaker (n.) A book of selections for declamation.
Sputter :: Sputter (v. i.) To utter words hastily and indistinctly; to speak so rapidly as to emit saliva.
Magniloquent :: Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Rather :: Rather (a.) More properly; more correctly speaking.
Discourse :: Discourse (v. t.) To utter or give forth; to speak.
Propose :: Propose (v. i.) To speak; to converse.
Talk :: Talk (n.) To prate; to speak impertinently.
Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly..
Speak :: Speak (v. t.) To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings..
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) A treatise on the principles of language; a book containing the principles and rules for correctness in speaking or writing.
Pulpiteer :: Pulpiteer (n.) One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called in contempt.
Pleonasm :: Pleonasm (n.) Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes..
Sough :: Sough (v. i.) A cant or whining mode of speaking, especially in preaching or praying..
Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Prosing :: Prosing (n.) Writing prose; speaking or writing in a tedious or prosy manner.
Turgid :: Turgid (a.) Swelling in style or language; vainly ostentatious; bombastic; pompous; as, a turgid style of speaking..
Cite :: Cite (v. t.) To bespeak; to indicate.
Mention :: Mention (v. t.) To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.
Maledicency :: Maledicency (n.) Evil speaking.
Hyperbolize :: Hyperbolize (v. i.) To speak or write with exaggeration.
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