prelection
21harangue — I noun abusive speech, bombast, contio, declamation, declamatory speech, diatribe, disquisition, effusion, exhortation, expatiation, invective, lecture, prelection, tirade, vehement speech associated concepts: harassment II index address (talk… …
22peroration — I noun address, bombast, declamation, discourse, epilogus, formal speech, grandiloquence, homily, lecture, magniloquence, monologue, oration, oratorical display, orotundity, peroratio, prelection, prepared speech, public address, recitation,… …
23discourse — Synonyms and related words: accents, act, address, air, amplify, analyze, argue, article, assignment, bandy words, canvass, causerie, chalk talk, chatter, chew the fat, chew the rag, chin, colloque, colloquial discourse, colloquize, colloquy,… …
24homily — Synonyms and related words: article, assignment, causerie, chalk talk, descant, discourse, discussion, disquisition, dissertation, essay, etude, examination, excursus, exercise, exposition, feature, first approach, harangue, homework, instruction …
25lecture — Synonyms and related words: address, admonish, admonishment, admonition, assignment, berate, berating, bring to book, call to account, castigation, censure, chalk talk, chastise, chastisement, chew out, chide, chiding, correct, correction,… …
26preaching — Synonyms and related words: allurement, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, conning, discourse, engagement, enlistment, exhortation, homily, hortation, inducement, jawboning, lecture, lobbying, persuasion, preach, preachification,… …
27sermon — Synonyms and related words: address, admonishment, admonition, assignment, castigation, chalk talk, chastisement, chiding, correction, discourse, disquisition, dressing down, exercise, exhortation, exposition, harangue, homework, homily,… …
28address — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. direct; court, woo; accost, greet, approach, speak to. n. street and number; residence, home; speech, discourse, oration; cleverness, dexterity. See direction, indication, abode, courtesy, skill.… …
29allocution — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. speech. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun A usually formal oral communication to an audience: address, declamation, lecture, oration, prelection, speech, talk. See WORDS …
30lecture — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. address, discourse, expound; reprove, rebuke, scold. See teaching, disapprobation, speech. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A speech] Syn. discourse, address, talk; see speech 3 . 2. [A reprimand] Syn.… …
