Elocution

n.	1.	Utterance by speech. [Fruit] whose taste . . . Gave elocution to the mute, and taught The tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise. - Milton.
	2.	Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
	3.	Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction. To express these thoughts with elocution. - Dryden.

Noun

1.

elocution - an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture

accents, chatter, comment, conversation, debating, declamation, demagogism, discourse, eloquence, forensics, gab, homiletics, language, lecturing, oral communication, oratory, palaver, parole, platform oratory, prattle, public speaking, pyrotechnics, rabble-rousing, rapping, rhetoric, speaking, speech, speechcraft, speechification, speeching, speechmaking, stump speaking, talk, talking, wordcraft, words, yakkety-yak, yakking

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