单词 | orate |
例句 | orate verb •she orated with a contagious passion:declaim, make a speech, hold forth, speak, discourse, pontificate, preach, sermonize, sound off, spout off, speechify | informal spiel | formal perorate | humorous bloviate.WORD NOTE bloviate Just what it sounds like, bloviate means "to pontificate or give a pompous speech," especially when the speaker is a self-promoting blowhard. It was used by (and probably about) Warren G. Harding, U.S. president from 1921 to 1923. Earlier examples date to the 1850s. — JSConversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage. |
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