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LANGUAGE |
Diction |
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LISPS |
Diction flaws |
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PHRASEOLOGY |
Peculiarities of diction |
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QUEENSSPEECH |
Televised royal message made with New York diction? |
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ELOCUTION |
Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent
diction. |
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TRANCSCENDENTAL |
Vaguely and ambitiously extravagant in
speculation, imagery, or diction. |
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TRANSCENDENTALISM |
Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought,
imagery, or diction. |
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EUPHUISM |
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of
language; high-flown diction. |
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LOW |
Not elevated or sublime; not exalted or diction; as, a
low comparison. |
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PARLANCE |
Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in
legal parlance; in common parlance. |
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STRENGTH |
Vigor or style; force of expression; nervous diction; --
said of literary work. |
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PHRASE |
A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any
one expreses himself; diction; expression. |
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FLOW |
Any gentle, gradual movement or procedure of thought,
diction, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a
river; a stream. |
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FLOURISH |
To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn
with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set
off with a parade of words. |
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MEAGRE |
Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like;
defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in
ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery. |
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PATAVINITY |
The use of local or provincial words, as in the
peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called
from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity. |
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EUPHUIST |
...are marked by affected conceits and
high-flown diction. ... |
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DICTION |
...y, etc.; mode of expression;
language; as, the diction of Chaucer's poems. ... |
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POEM |
...itten in
certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized
by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from ... |