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Monologue

A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.

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Language 76% connected

Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, artic…

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Speech 76% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Monologist 74% connected

One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Monologist 74% connected

One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.

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Soliloquy 92% connected

The act of talking to one's self; a discourse made by one in solitude to one's self; monologue.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Account noun · 78% connection

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: speech, uttered, alone, soliloquy, talk.
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Articulate adjective · 78% connection

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Company noun · 78% connection

The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.

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Dacapo unknown · 78% connection

From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so re…

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Director noun · 78% connection

One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent.

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Discourse noun · 78% connection

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exe…

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Elutriate verb · 78% connection

To wash or strain out so as to purify; as, to elutriate the blood as it passes through the lungs; to strain off or decant, as a powder…

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Faair-spoken adjective · 78% connection

Using fair speech, or uttered with fairness; bland; civil; courteous; plausible.

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Hum verb · 78% connection

To make a low, prolonged sound, like that of a bee in flight; to drone; to murmur; to buzz; as, a top hums.

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Inarticulate adjective · 78% connection

Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words.

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Lecture noun · 78% connection

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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Lip noun · 78% connection

One of the two fleshy folds which surround the orifice of the mouth in man and many other animals. In man the lips are organs of speec…

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