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  • 61declamation — noun a) The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; haranguing; loud speaking in public; especially, the public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges; as, the practice declamation by students. b) A set or harangue;… …

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  • 63DEMOSTHENES —    the great Athenian orator, born in Athens; had many impediments to overcome to succeed in the profession, but by ingenious methods and indomitable perseverance he subdued them all, and became the first orator not of Greece only, but of all… …

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  • 64recitation — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. declamation, elocution; recital, lesson. See speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The act of reciting] Syn. delivery, speaking, playing, narrating, reading, recounting, declaiming, discoursing,… …

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  • 65talking — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. eloquent, chattering, mouthing, repeating, echoing, pronouncing, expressing, articuLating, enunciating, ranting, spouting, haranguing, waffling, speaking, vocalizing, verbalizing, declaiming, orating, conversing,… …

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  • 66declaim — (v.) late 14c., from M.Fr. déclamer and directly from L. declamare to practice public speaking, to bluster, from de intensive prefix + clamare to cry, shout (see CLAIM (Cf. claim) (v.)). At first in English spelled declame, but altered under… …

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  • 67declaim — [[t]dɪkle͟ɪm[/t]] declaims, declaiming, declaimed VERB If you declaim, you speak dramatically, as if you were acting in a theatre. [WRITTEN] [V with quote] He raised his right fist and declaimed: Liar and cheat! ... [V n] I can remember the way… …

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  • 68Fast Speaking Woman — by Anne Waldman (1975)    Fast Speaking Woman is not anne waldman’s first poetry book, but it brought her to the wider notice of readers especially connected to Beat movement writing. It was published by lawrence ferlinghetti’s City Lights Books… …

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  • 69declamation — noun the action or art of declaiming. ↘a rhetorical exercise or set speech …

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  • 70declamation — n. 1. Declaiming, haranguing, mouthing, ranting, spouting (colloq.). 2. Harangue, set speech. 3. Exercise in speaking …

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