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speech collapse: (language) communication by word of mouth; "his speech was garbled"; "he uttered harsh language"; "he recorded the spoken language of the streets"; the exchange of spoken words; "they were perfectly comfortable together without speech"; something spoken; "he could hear them uttering merry speeches"

fortnight collapse: a period of fourteen consecutive days; "most major tennis tournaments last a fortnight"

caucus collapse: a closed political meeting; meet to select a candidate or promote a policy

summon collapse: call in an official matter, such as to attend court; ask to come; "summon a lawyer"

debate collapse: the formal presentation of and opposition to a stated proposition (usually followed by a vote); argue with one another; "We debated the question of abortion"; "John debated Mary"; discuss the pros and cons of an issue

talk collapse: the act of giving a talk to an audience; "I attended an interesting talk on local history"; an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here"; discussion; (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of'); "his poetry contains much talk about love and anger"; idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately"; express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"; exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"

convocation collapse: the act of convoking; a group gathered in response to a summons

harangue collapse: a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion; deliver a harangue to; address forcefully

lecture collapse: teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class); a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to"; a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications"; deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?"

levee collapse: an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing; a pier that provides a landing place on a river; a formal reception of visitors or guests (as at a royal court)

meeting collapse: the social act of assembling for some common purpose; "his meeting with the salesmen was the high point of his day"; a casual or unexpected convergence; "he still remembers their meeting in Paris"; "there was a brief encounter in the hallway"; a formally arranged gathering; "next year the meeting will be in Chicago"; "the meeting elected a chairperson"; a small informal social gathering; "there was an informal meeting in my living room"

apart collapse: not taken into account or excluded from consideration; "these problems apart, the country is doing well"; "all joking aside, I think you're crazy"; into parts or pieces; "he took his father's watch apart"; "split apart"; "torn asunder"; separated or at a distance in place or position or time; "These towns are many miles apart"; "stood with his legs apart"; "born two years apart"; one from the other; "people can't tell the twins apart"; away from another or others; "they grew apart over the years"; "kept apart from the group out of shyness"; "decided to live apart"

sit in collapse: participate in an act of civil disobedience; attend as a visitor; "Can I sit in on your Intermediate Hittite class?"

teaching collapse: the profession of a teacher; "he prepared for teaching while still in college"; "pedagogy is recognized as an important profession"; a doctrine that is taught; "the teachings of religion"; "he believed all the Christian precepts"

congress collapse: the legislature of the United States government; a meeting of elected or appointed representatives; a national legislative assembly

day collapse: United States writer best known for his autobiographical works (1874-1935); a period of opportunity; "he deserves his day in court"; "every dog has his day"; some point or period in time; "it should arrive any day now"; "after that day she never trusted him again"; "those were the days"; "these days it is not unusual"; the recurring hours when you are not sleeping (especially those when you are working); "my day began early this morning"; "it was a busy day on the stock exchange"; "she called it a day and went to bed"; time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis; "two days later they left"; "they put on two performances every day"; "there are 30,000 passengers per day"; a day assigned to a particular purpose or observance; "Mother's Day"; the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside; "the dawn turned night into day"; "it is easier to make the repairs in the daytime"; the period of time taken by a particular planet (e.g. Mars) to make a complete rotation on its axis; "how long is a day on Jupiter?"; an era of existence or influence; "in the day of the dinosaurs"; "in the days of the Roman Empire"; "in the days of sailing ships"; "he was a successful pianist in his day"

bout collapse: a contest or fight (especially between boxers or wrestlers); a period of illness; "a bout of fever"; "a bout of depression"

gathered collapse: having accumulated or become more intense; "the deepened gloom"

convention collapse: the act of convening; something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"; (diplomacy) an international agreement; a large formal assembly; "political convention"

analysis collapse: an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole; the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations; a branch of mathematics involving calculus and the theory of limits; sequences and series and integration and differentiation; a form of literary criticism in which the structure of a piece of writing is analyzed; the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'

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