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inflection

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Main Entry: inflection
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accent, intonation

Synonyms:

articulation, change, emphasis, enunciation, modulation, pitch, pronunciation, sound, timbre, tonality, tone, tone of voice, variation
Notes: in the jargon of grammar, the forms of nouns, pronouns, and adjectives can be arrayed in declensions or inflections; the forms of verbs are said to be arrayed in conjugations

Antonyms:

monotone
Main Entry: accent
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stress or pitch in pronunciation

Synonyms:

accentuation, articulation, beat, cadence, emphasis, enunciation, force, inflection, intonation, meter, modulation, pronunciation, rhythm, stroke, timbre, tonality, tone
Main Entry: cadence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rhythm

Synonyms:

accent, beat, count, inflection, intonation, lilt, measure, meter, modulation, pulse, rhythmus, swing, tempo, throb
Main Entry: delivery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: articulation of message

Synonyms:

accent, diction, elocution, emphasis, enunciation, inflection, intonation, modulation, pronunciation, speech, utterance

Antonyms:

quiet, secrecy
Main Entry: diction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: style of speech; articulation

Synonyms:

command of language, delivery, elocution, eloquence, enunciation, expression, fluency, gift of gab, inflection, intonation, language, line, lingo, locution, oratory, parlance, phrase, phraseology, phrasing, pronunciation, rhetoric, usage, verbalism, verbiage, vocabulary, wordage, wording
Main Entry: locution
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: phrasing

Synonyms:

accent, articulation, dialect, diction, expression, inflection, language, phraseology
Main Entry: melody
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: harmony, tune

Synonyms:

air, aria, assonance, carillon, chant, chime, concord, consonance, descant, diapason, euphony, inflection, lay, lyric, measure, melodiousness, music, musicality, refrain, resonance, run, song, strain, theme, tunefulness, unison

Antonyms:

cacophony, disharmony
Main Entry: tone
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pitch, volume

Synonyms:

accent, emphasis, force, inflection, intonation, modulation, resonance, strength, stress, timbre, tonality
Main Entry: voice
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: expression, language

Synonyms:

articulation, call, cry, delivery, exclamation, inflection, intonation, modulation, murmur, mutter, roar, shout, song, sound, speech, statement, tone, tongue, utterance, vent, vocalization, vociferation, words, yell
Main Entry: modulation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: timbre

Synonyms:

inflection, intonation, pitch, tone
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