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To speak rhetorically; to make a formal speech or oration; to harangue; specifically, to recite a speech, poem, etc., in public as a rhetorical exercise; to practice public speaking; as, the students declaim twice a week.

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Execute 76% connected

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Perform 76% connected

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

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Protest 76% connected

To affirm in a public or formal manner; to bear witness; to declare solemnly; to avow.

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Perorate 76% connected

To make a peroration; to harangue.

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Scan 76% connected

To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.

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Declamation 74% connected

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Declamation 74% connected

The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise…

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Mouth 72% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Speak 72% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Talk 72% connected

To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Utter 72% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 72% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Synonym 2

Inveigh 92% connected

To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to utter censorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism or reproach, either spoken…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Recite 92% connected

To repeat, as something already prepared, written down, committed to memory, or the like; to deliver from a written or printed document, or from reco…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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