Role and Speech

Role

Role noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.

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Speech and role are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Speech" instead a noun "Role".

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

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Role and speech are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Role" instead a noun "Speech".

Nearby Word: speechless

good	good role	good speech
exact	exact role	exact speech
similar	similar role	similar speech
usual	usual role	usual speech
Other adjectives: brief, regular, original, single, small, actual, entire, big, evil, little, bad, important, famous, dramatic, final, limited, last, different.

The view in his courtroom speech might be a reasonable statement of the unique role of the military in protecting a free society and the compromises that come with that.

Source: Film / A Few Good Men
There's also Peter Cook's role as the aptly titled Impressive Clergyman with the ridiculous speech impediment.

Source: One Scene Wonder / Live-Action Films
Eleonora plays this role for her brother, Menelaos, in Greek Ninja as his speech consists mostly of mistranslated Greek.

Source: Translator Buddy

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