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rhetoric

study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)

using language effectively to please or persuade

Synonyms:

• Barnumism,
• affectation,
• articulateness,
• bedizenment,
• big talk,
• bluster,
• bombast,
• choice of words,
• command of language,
• command of words,
• composition,
• convolution,
• debating,
• declamation,
• demagogism,
• dialect,
• diction,
• effective style,
• elocution,
• eloquence,
• eloquent tongue,
• exaggeration,
• expression,
• expression of ideas,
• expressiveness,
• facundity,
• fashion,
• feeling for words,
• felicitousness,
• felicity,
• flashiness,
• flatulence,
• flatulency,
• forensics,
• form of speech,
• formulation,
• fulsomeness,
• fustian,
• garishness,
• gasconade,
• gaudiness,
• gift of expression,
• gift of gab,
• glibness,
• grace of expression,
• grammar,
• grandiloquence,
• grandioseness,
• grandiosity,
• graphicness,
• high-flown diction,
• highfalutin,
• homiletics,
• hot air,
• idiom,
• inflatedness,
• inflation,
• language,
• lecturing,
• lexiphanicism,
• literary style,
• locution,
• loftiness,
• long-windedness,
• luridness,
• magniloquence,
• manner,
• manner of speaking,
• mannerism,
• meaningfulness,
• mere rhetoric,
• meretriciousness,
• mode,
• mode of expression,
• oratory,
• orotundity,
• ostentation,
• ostentatious complexity,
• parlance,
• peculiarity,
• personal style,
• phrase,
• phraseology,
• phrasing,
• platform oratory,
• platitudinous ponderosity,
• polysyllabic profundity,
• pomposity,
• pompous prolixity,
• pompousness,
• pontification,
• pretension,
• pretentiousness,
• prolixity,
• prose run mad,
• public speaking,
• puffery,
• pyrotechnics,
• rabble-rousing,
• rant,
• rhapsody,
• rhetoricalness,
• rodomontade,
• sensationalism,
• sense of language,
• sententiousness,
• sesquipedality,
• showiness,
• silver tongue,
• slickness,
• smoothness,
• speaking,
• speech,
• speechcraft,
• speechification,
• speeching,
• speechmaking,
• stiltedness,
• strain,
• stump speaking,
• style,
• stylistic analysis,
• stylistics,
• swelling utterance,
• swollen phrase,
• swollenness,
• talk,
• tall talk,
• the grand style,
• the plain style,
• the sublime,
• tortuosity,
• tortuousness,
• trick,
• tumidity,
• tumidness,
• turgescence,
• turgidity,
• usage,
• use of words,
• usus loquendi,
• vein,
• verbiage,
• verbosity,
• vividness,
• way,
• windiness,
• wordage,
• wordcraft,
• wordiness,
• wording