| Main Entry: | pep talk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inspirational talk |
Synonyms: |
inducement, rallying cry, trumpet call |
| Main Entry: | address |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech given to formal gathering |
Synonyms: |
chalk talk, discourse, dissertation, lecture, oration, pep talk, pitch, sermon, soapbox, spiel*, talk |
| Main Entry: | ardor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
avidity, devotion, eagerness, earnestness, feeling, fervor, fierceness, fire, gusto, heat, intensity, jazz, keenness, oomph, passion, pep talk, spirit, turn on, vehemence, verve, warmth, weakness*, zeal, zest, zing |
Antonyms: |
coldness, coolness, frigidity, indifference |
| Main Entry: | fervor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excitement, enthusiasm |
Synonyms: |
animation, ardency, ardor, devoutness, eagerness, earnestness, fervency, fire*, heartiness, heat*, hurrah, intensity, jazz, love, oomph, passion, pep talk, piety, piousness, religiousness, seriousness, sincerity, solemnity, vehemence, warmth, weakness, wholeheartedness, zeal, zealousness |
| Notes: | the intensity of heat or feeling can be described as fervency (from Latin fervere 'boil'); an instance of this heat or feeling is fervor |
Antonyms: |
apathy, coolness, discouragement |
| Main Entry: | lecture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lesson, speech |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, chalk talk, discourse, disquisition, harangue, instruction, oration, pep talk, pitch*, soapbox, spiel*, talk |
| Main Entry: | oration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
Synonyms: |
address, chalk talk, declamation, discourse, harangue, homily, lecture, pep talk, pitch*, sermon, soapbox, spiel* |
Antonyms: |
print, writing |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | formal talk to audience |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, prelection, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, tirade, valedictory |
Antonyms: |
listening |
| Main Entry: | prelect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | address |
Synonyms: |
chalk talk, discourse, dissertation, lecture, oration, pep talk, pitch, sermon, soapbox, speak, spiel*, talk |
| Main Entry: | prelection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | speech |
Synonyms: |
address, allocution, appeal, bombast, chalk talk, commentary, debate, declamation, diatribe, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, eulogy, exhortation, harangue, homily, invocation, keynote, lecture, opus, oration, oratory, panegyric, paper, parlance, parley, pep talk, pitch, recitation, rhetoric, salutation, sermon, spiel*, stump, talk, tirade, valedictory |
| Main Entry: | speech |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
talkative, affected, alieniloquent, alliterative, altiloquent, antithetical, babblative, blandiloquent, bombastic, breviloquent, chrysostomatic, colloquial, communicate, communicative, concionative, declamatory, demegoric, diversiloquent, doctiloquent, drawling, elocutionary, eloquent, enunciative, euphuistic, explicit, expressive, facund, fallaciloquent, fatiloquent, flaming, flexiloquent, frothy, fustian, glossal, glossoepiglottic, gnomologic, grandiloquent, grandiose, high, inaniloquent, johnsonian, lingual, longiloquent, magniloquent, melliloquent, mendaciloquent, meropic, mincing, mouthy, multiloquent, not written, nuncupatory, omniloquent, oral, oratorical, orotund, outspoken, parrhesiastic, peripatetic, periphrastic, phatic, phemic, phonetic, phoniatric, plain, platitudinarian, pleniloquent, polyloquent, procacious, published, renable, rhetorical, sanctiloquent, sententious, sesquipedalian, sialoquent, singsong, slangous, soliloquacious, soliloqual, soliloquizing, somniloquacious, sonorous, spadish, speaking, spoken, stammering, stilted, stultiloquent, stuttering, suaviloquent, talkable, telepheme, totutiloquent, tremulous, tub, unlarded, unwritten, vaniloquent, ventose, veriloquent
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