Oration and Speaking

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Oration noun - A usually formal discourse delivered to an audience.

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Speaking and oration are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speaking" instead a noun "Oration".

Nearby Words: oratory, orated, orator, orating

Speaking noun - The utterance of intelligible speech.

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Oration and speaking are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Oration" instead a noun "Speaking".

Nearby Words: speak, speaker

Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking...: Mark Antony's funeral oration: "I am no orator, as Brutus is..." Cassius does this more subtly to Brutus in Act I, Scene II, when he expresses pleasure that his "weak words have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus".

Source: Theatre / Julius Caesar

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