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| assertive |
forward or aggressive in speech or action. |
| assimilate |
of a speech sound, to become modified by a linguistically adjacent sound. [1/8 definitions] |
| attack |
to use speech or writing to criticize or injure. [1/9 definitions] |
| audience |
a group of people gathered to hear and sometimes to see a performance, speech, or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| balderdash |
nonsensical speech or writing; foolish, unpersuasive argumentation. |
| bilabial |
a speech sound made with the lips close together, as the consonants "b" and "m". [1/3 definitions] |
| blooper |
esp. in radio and television, an embarrassing or amusing error in speech or action. [1/2 definitions] |
| bombastic |
overblown or pretentious, as speech, writing, or a person speaking or writing in this way. |
| brusque |
impolitely abrupt in speech or actions; curt. |
| Brythonic |
P-Celtic, esp. as spoken in Britain or derived from such speech; Britannic. [1/2 definitions] |
| bunkum |
insincere talk or speech-making. |
| burry2 |
of speech, as in the dialect of Scotland, having a burr. |
| cant1 |
singsong, monotonous speech, esp. the repeating of ritualized phrases, as by a beggar. [1/6 definitions] |
| catachresis |
a forced figure of speech such as a bad metaphor. [1/2 definitions] |
| chatter |
rapid, aimless speech. [1/7 definitions] |
| Chinese |
the standard language of that country, based on the speech of Beijing; Mandarin. [1/4 definitions] |
| chorus |
a speech or other utterance made by a number of people at the same time. [1/6 definitions] |
| circumlocution |
the use of roundabout, indirect, or evasive language in speech or writing. [1/2 definitions] |
| citified |
having or taking the manners, dress, speech, customs, or the like of a person living in a large city. |
| civil liberty |
a citizen's freedom to exercise certain rights, such as the right to free speech or free assembly, as guaranteed by the laws of a country. |
| click |
a speech sound of certain African languages that is made by drawing air into the mouth and clicking the tongue. [1/8 definitions] |
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