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oratesverbpresent tense third-person singular of orate to talk as if giving an important and formal speechgiven the opportunity, many politicians will orate at considerable length on just about any subject declaims, discourses, harangues, mouths (off), perorates rants, ravesbloviates, blowslectures, preaches, sermonizesadvertises, announces, broadcasts, declares, proclaims, pronouncesspeaks, speechifies, talks 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 declaims, descants, discourses, expatiates, harangues, lectures, speaks, talks recites, soliloquizesdisserts, expounds, pontificates, sermonizesmouths, spoutsfilibusters holds forth, takes the floor |