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#580. Voice. -- N. voice

• organ

• lungs

• bellows

• good

• voice

• fine voice

• powerful voice

• musical voice

• intonation

• tone of voice

• vocalization

• cry

• strain

• utterance

• exclamation

• ejaculation

• vociferation

• enunciation

• articulation

• articulate sound

• distinctness

• clearness

• of articulation;

• stage whisper

• delivery

• accent

• accentuation

• emphasis

• stress

• broad accent

• strong accent

• pure accent

• native accent

• foreign accent

• pronunciation

• [Word similarly pronounced] homonym

• euphony

• ventriloquism

• ventriloquist

• [Science of voice] phonology

• V. utter

• breathe

• give utterance

• give tongue

• cry

• ejaculate

• rap out

• vocalize

• prolate|

• articulate

• enunciate

• pronounce

• accentuate

• aspirate

• deliver

• mouth

• whisper in the ear

• Adj. vocal

• phonetic

• oral

• ejaculatory

• articulate

• distinct

• stertorous

• euphonious

• Phr. "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman" [Massinger]

• "the

• organ of the soul" [Longfellow]

• "thy voice is a celestial melody"

• [Longfellow]

• dumbness

• absence of voice

• want of voice

• silence

• harsh voice

• unmusical voice

• falsetto

• "childish treble mute";

• dummy

• V. keep silence

• speak low

• speak softly

• whisper

• (faintness) 405

• silence

• render mute

• render silent

• muzzle

• muffle

• suppress

• smother

• gag

• strike dumb

• dumfounder

• drown the voice

• put to silence

• stop one's mouth

• cut one short

• stick in the throat

• dumb

• mute

• deafmute

• deaf and dumb

• mum

• tongue-

• tied

• breathless

• tongueless

• voiceless

• speechless

• wordless

• mute as a

• fish

• mute as a mackerel

• silent

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• muzzled

• inarticulate

• inaudible

• croaking

• raucous

• hoarse

• husky

• dry

• hollow

• sepulchral

• hoarse as a

• raven

• rough

• Adv. with bated breath

• with the finger on the lips

• sotto voce[Lat];

• in a low tone

• in a cracked voice

• in a broken voice

• Phr. vox faucibus haesit [Lat][Vergil]

#582. Speech. -- N. speech

• faculty of speech

• locution

• talk

• parlance

• verbal intercourse

• oral communication

• word of

• mouth

• parole

• palaver

• prattle

• effusion

• oration

• recitation

• delivery

• say

• speech

• lecture

• harangue

• sermon

• tirade

• formal speech

• peroration

• speechifying

• soliloquy

• allocution

• conversation

• salutatory

• screed

• valedictory

• [U.S.][U.S.]

• oratory

• elocution

• eloquence

• rhetoric

• declamation

• grandiloquence

• burst of eloquence

• flow of words

• command of words

• command of language

• copia verborum[Lat]

• power of

• speech

• gift of the gab

• usus loquendi[Lat]

• speaker

• spokesman

• prolocutor

• interlocutor

• mouthpiece

• Hermes

• orator

• Demosthenes

• Cicero;

• rhetorician

• stump orator

• platform orator

• speechmaker

• V. speak of

• say

• utter

• pronounce

• deliver

• give utterance to

• utter

• forth

• pour forth

• breathe

• let fall

• come out with

• rap out

• blurt out

• have on one's lips

• have at the end of one's tongue

• have at the tip of

• one's tongue

• break silence

• open one's lips

• open one's mouth

• lift one's voice

• raise one's voice

• give the tongue

• wag the tongue

• talk

• put in a word or two

• hold forth

• make a speech,.deliver a speech

• speechify

• harangue

• declaim

• stump

• flourish

• recite

• lecture

• sermonize

• discourse

• be on one's legs

• have one's say

• say one's say

• spout

• rant

• rave

• vent

• one's fury

• vent one's rage

• expatiate

• speak

• one's mind

• go on the stump

• take the stump [U. S.]

• soliloquize

• tell

• speak to

• talk

• together

• be eloquent

• have a tongue in one's head

• have the gift of the

• gab

• pass one's lips

• escape one's lips

• fall from the lips

• fall from the

• mouth

• Adj. speaking

• spoken

• oral

• lingual

• phonetic

• not

• written

• unwritten

• outspoken

• eloquent

• elocutionary

• oratorical

• rhetorical

• declamatory

• grandiloquent

• talkative

• Ciceronian

• nuncupative

• Tullian

• Adv. orally

• by word of mouth

• viva voce

• from the lips of

• Phr. quoth he

• said he

• "action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]

• "pour

• the full tide of eloquence along" [Pope]

• "she speaks poignards and every

• word stabs" [Much Ado About Nothing]

• "speech is but broken light upon the

• depth of the unspoken [G. Eliot]

• "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time

• [Antony and Cleopatra]

#583. [Imperfect Speech.] Stammering. -- N. inarticulateness;

• stammering

• hesitation

• impediment in one's speech;

• traulism|

• whisper

• lisp

• drawl

• nasal tone

• nasal accent

• twang

• falsetto

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• broken voice

• broken accents

• broken sentences

• brogue

• slip of the tongue

• lapsus linouae [Lat]

• V. stammer

• stutter

• hesitate

• falter

• hammer

• balbutiate|

• balbucinate|

• haw

• hum and haw

• be unable to put two words together

• mumble

• mutter

• maud|

• whisper

• mince

• lisp;

• jabber

• gibber

• sputter

• splutter

• muffle

• drawl

• mouth

• croak;

• speak thick

• speak through the nose

• snuffle

• clip one's words

• murder the

• language

• murder the King's English

• murder the Queen's English;

• mispronounce

• Adj. stammering

• inarticulate

• guttural

• nasal

• tremulous;

• affected

• Adv. sotto voce

#584. Loquacity. -- N. loquacity

• loquaciousness

• talkativeness

• garrulity

• much speaking

• jaw

• gabble

• jabber

• chatter

• prate

• prattle

• cackle

• clack

• twaddle

• twattle

• rattle

• blabber

• small talk

• fluency

• flippancy

• volubility

• flowing

• tongue

• flow of words

• flux

• copia verborum[Lat]

• cacoethes

• loquendi[Lat]

• furor loquendi[Lat]

• verbosity

• gift

• of the gab

• talker

• chatterer

• chatterbox

• babbler

• rattle

• ranter;

• sermonizer

• driveler

• blatherskite [U. S.]

• gossip

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• magpie

• jay

• parrot

• poll

• Babel

• V. be loquacious

• talk glibly

• pour forth

• patter

• prate

• palaver

• prose

• chatter

• prattle

• clack

• jabber

• jaw

• blather

• rattle

• rattle on

• twaddle

• twattle

• babble

• gabble

• outtalk

• talk oneself out of breath

• talk oneself hoarse

• expatiate

• gossip

• din in the ears

• (repeat)

• talk at random

• talk nonsense

• be hoarse with

• talking

• Adj. loquacious

• talkative

• garrulous

• linguacious|

• largiloquent|

• chattering

• chatty

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• declamatory

• open-mouthed

• fluent

• voluble

• glib

• flippant

• long tongued

• long winded

• (diffuse) 573

• Adv. trippingly on the tongue

• glibly

• off the reel

• Phr. the tongue running fast

• the tongue running loose

• the tongue

• running on wheels

• all talk and no cider

• "foul whisperings are abroad"

• [Macbeth]

• "what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!" [Tempest]

#585. Taciturnity. -- N. silence

• muteness

• taciturnity

• costiveness|

• curtness

• reserve

• reticence

• man of few words

• V. be silent

• keep silence

• keep mum

• hold one's tongue

• hold one's peace

• hold one's jaw

• not speak.

• say nothing

• keep

• one's counsel

• seal the lips

• close the lips

• button the lips

• zipper the

• lips

• put a padlock on the lips

• put a padlock on the mouth

• put a bridle

• on one's tongue

• bite one's tongue

• keep one's tongue between one's teeth;

• make no sign

• not let a word escape one

• keep a secret

• not have a

• word to say

• hush up

• hush

• lay the finger on the lips

• place the finger on

• the lips

• render mute

• stick in one's throat

• Adj. silent

• mute

• mum

• silent as a post

• silent as a stone

• silent as

• the grave

• dumb

• taciturn

• sparing of words

• closetongued

• costive|

• inconversable|

• curt

• reserved

• reticent

• keep your mouth shut![vulgar]

• Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui[Lat]

• volto sciolto i pensieri

• stretti[It]

#586. Allocution. -- N. allocution

• alloquy|

• address

• speech

• apostrophe

• interpellation

• appeal

• invocation

• salutation

• word in the

• ear

• platform

• plank

• audience

• V. speak to

• address

• accost

• make up to

• apostrophize

• appeal to

• invoke

• ball

• salute

• call to

• halloo

• take aside

• take by the button

• talk to in private

• lecture

#587. Response -- N.

• see Answer 462

#588. Conversation. -- N. conversation

• interlocution;

• colloquy

• converse

• confabulation

• talk

• discourse

• verbal intercourse

• oral communication

• commerce

• dialogue

• duologue

• trialogue

• causerie

• chat

• chitchat

• small talk

• table talk

• town talk

• village talk

• idle talk

• tattle

• gossip

• tittle-tattle

• babble

• cackle

• cancan

• talk of the town

• talk of the village

• conference

• parley

• interview

• audience

• pourparler

• tete-a-tete;

• reception

• conversazione[It]

• congress

• powwow [U. S.]

• hall of audience

• palaver

• debate

• war of words

• gossip

• tattler

• Paul Pry

• tabby

• chatterer

• interlocutor

• "the feast of reason and the flow of soul" [Pope]

• mollia tempora

• V. talk together

• converse

• confabulate

• hold on a conversation

• carry

• on a conversation

• join in a conversation

• engage in a conversation

• put in

• a word

• shine in conversation

• bandy words

• parley

• palaver

• chat

• gossip

• tattle

• prate

• powwow [U.S.].

• discourse with

• confer with

• commune with

• commerce with

• hold

• converse

• hold conference

• hold intercourse

• talk it over

• be closeted

• with

• talk with one in private

• tete-a-tete

• Adj. conversing

• interlocutory

• conversational

• discursive

• chatty

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• colloquial

• Phr. "with thee conversing I forget all time" [Paradise Lost]

#589. Soliloquy. -- N. soliloquy

• monologue

• apostrophe;

• V. Soliloquize

• say to oneself

• talk to oneself

• say aside

• think

• aloud

• apostrophize

• Adj. soliloquizing

• Adv. aside

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