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orateverb to talk as if giving an important and formal speechgiven the opportunity, many politicians will orate at considerable length on just about any subject declaim, discourse, harangue, mouth (off), perorate rant, ravebloviate, blowlecture, preach, sermonizeadvertise, announce, broadcast, declare, proclaim, pronouncespeak, speechify, talk to give a formal often extended talk on a subjectthe respected anthropologist is expected to orate about her latest research findings before a packed auditorium declaim, descant, discourse, expatiate, harangue, lecture, speak, talk recite, soliloquizedissert, expound, pontificate, sermonizemouth, spoutfilibuster hold forth, take the floor in 1864 |