Speak Out!: loqu, locu (speak)

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  1. soliloquy
    speech you make to yourself
  2. colloquy
    formal conversation
  3. colloquial
    characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation
  4. loquacity
    the quality of being wordy and talkative
  5. elocution
    an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice
  6. loquacious
    full of trivial conversation
  7. interlocutor
    a person who takes part in a conversation
  8. obloquy
    state of disgrace resulting from public abuse
  9. soliloquize
    talk to oneself
  10. circumlocution
    an indirect way of expressing something
  11. grandiloquent
    lofty in style
  12. ventriloquism
    projecting the voice so it seems to come from another source
  13. ventriloquist
    a performer who projects the voice into a wooden dummy
  14. magniloquent
    lofty in style
  15. breviloquent
    expressing much in few words
Created on Fri Mar 20 15:22:21 EDT 2026 (updated Fri Mar 20 16:13:08 EDT 2026)

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