Perceive and Speak

Perceive

Perceive verb - To have a vague awareness of.

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Speak and perceive are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speak" instead a verb "Perceive".

Speak verb - To express (a thought or emotion) in words.

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Perceive and speak are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Perceive" instead a verb "Speak".

Nearby Words: speaker, speaking

people	perceive people	speak people
speech	perceive speech	speak speech
truth	perceive truth	speak truth
form	perceive form	speak form
Other words: time, way, language, words, ghosts.

The Kindar think that Erdlings speak in "softly slurring" accents, while Erdlings perceive Kindar speech as "curiously crisp", "sharp and sudden".

Source: Literature / Green-Sky Trilogy
Som-Som from Alan Moore's Hypothetical Lizard who has had the two halves of her brain separated in such a way that the half of her brain that can see and hear is unable to speak or act, while the half that controls her actions and words is unable to perceive the world.

Source: And I Must Scream / Literature
The Lumati also frequently engage in this during diplomatic functions since they are a highly isolationist and elitist race that refuses to deal with "inferior species" and when communicating with anyone they perceive as the latter, they will speak via proxy using a symbiotic mechanism.

Source: Mouth of Sauron

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