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Stammering :: Stammering (a.) Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering.

Surd :: Surd (a.) Uttered, as an element of speech, without tone, or proper vocal sound; voiceless; unintonated; nonvocal; atonic; whispered; aspirated; sharp; hard, as f, p, s, etc.; -- opposed to sonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, //169, 179, 180..

Hyperbole :: Hyperbole (n.) A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect..

Pauciloquent :: Pauciloquent (a.) Uttering few words; brief in speech.

Speechify :: Speechify (v. i.) To make a speech; to harangue.

Hispanicism :: Hispanicism (n.) A Spanish idiom or mode of speech.

Tropology :: Tropology (n.) A rhetorical mode of speech, including tropes, or changes from the original import of the word..

Blandiloquence :: Blandiloquence (n.) Mild, flattering speech..

Logos :: Logos (n.) A word; reason; speech.

Declinable :: Declinable (a.) Capable of being declined; admitting of declension or inflection; as, declinable parts of speech..

Roundabout :: Roundabout (a.) Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech..

Fluent :: Fluent (a.) Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech..

Suavity :: Suaviloquy (n.) Sweetness of speech.

Speechified :: Speechified (imp. & p. p.) of Speechif.

Language :: Language (n.) The forms of speech, or the methods of expressing ideas, peculiar to a particular nation..

Whisper :: Whisper (n.) A cautious or timorous speech.

Languageless :: Languageless (a.) Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent.

Hesitation :: Hesitation (n.) A faltering in speech; stammering.

Tropist :: Tropist (n.) One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech..

Abscission :: Abscission (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more..

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