elocution
If you're particularly good at elocution, or speaking clearly and expressively, you may have a successful career in radio ahead of you.
Elocution is the skill of pronouncing your words correctly. There are even elocution coaches for actors, singers, or anyone else who wants to improve theirs. Elocution sometimes describes a particular style of speaking, like an announcer's elocution that sounds like he's from the Bronx. The Latin elocutionem is its root, meaning "manner of expression;" in Classical Latin it meant public speaking or oratory.
-
an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesturetype of:delivery, manner of speaking, speechyour characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
- MLA
- APA
- Chicago
Vocabulary lists containing elocution
Nick Carraway rents a summer house in Long Island where he befriends his mysterious neighbor Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire who hides behind an extravagant and decadent lifestyle.
In this play inspired by the Greek myth of Pygmalion, Professor Henry Higgins bets that he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a poor flower seller, into a cultured and genteel lady.
Two students who are struggling to fit in at school must contend with a bully.