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speak

verb address, air, announce, annunciate, apprise, articulate, aver, badinage, bandy words, bear witness, break silence, carry on a conversation, colloque, communiiate with, converse, declaim, declare, deliver, deliver an address, denote, dicere, disclose, discourse, divulge, ennage in a conversation, engage in a dialogue, enunciate, exchange opinions, explain, expound, express, give a talk, give expression, give indication of, give voice, give words to, have a dialogue, hold a conversation, hold a discussion, indicate, inform, issue a statement, join in a conversation, make a speech, make a statement, make mention, make oral communication, make oral mention, make solemn affirmation, make solemn declaration, murmur, mutter, palaver, parley, phrase, pour forth, proclaim, pronounce, publish, put into words, recite, remark, render an account of, repeat, report, reveal, say, sermonize, state, state emmhatically, state one's case, state with conviction, talk, tell, utter, utter forth, utter with conviction, utter words
Foreign phrases: Idem est nihil dicere et insufficienter dicere.It is the same thing to say nothing, and to say a thing insufficiently.

TO SPEAK. This term is used in the English law, to signify the permission given by a court to the prosecutor and defendant in some cases of misdemeanor, to agree together, after which the prosecutor comes into court and declares himself to be satisfied; when the court pass a nominal sentence. 1 Chit. Pr. 17.

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Of course there were those who were opposed to any such recognition of the rights of the Negro, but the Board of Directors, composed of men who represented the best and most progressive element in the South, had their way, and voted to invite a black man to speak on the opening day.

I knew, too, that this was the first time in the entire history of the Negro that a member of my race had been asked to speak from the same platform with white Southern men and women on any important National occasion.

I had been told, while I had been in Atlanta, that while many white people were going to be present to hear me speak, simply out of curiosity, and that others who would be present would be in full sympathy with me, there was a still larger element of the audience which would consist of those who were going to be present for the purpose of hearing me make a fool of myself, or, at least, of hearing me say some foolish thing so that they could say to the officials who had invited me to speak, "I told you so

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Is it absolutely necessary to speak of my marriage engagement?

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DO you recognise any of these these men and women who police wish to speak to?

Can you help police put names to faces? Officers probing alleged crimes on Teesside release images of people they want to speak to in connection with inquiries

speak up 1 : to speak loudly and clearly 2 : to express an opinion openly

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It would not help the English-only speakers to speak Welsh and the Welsh speakers would be forced to speak English.

ViewpointsGroup has to protect identity

If we don't learn the language of Pentecost that unites us all, we can only continue to speak the language of Babel that fragments the world in hostility and misunderstanding.

All fired up: like the family hearth, the Holy Spirit is the church's bright center, inviting all of us to come closer to one another

All I can say is, finally someone is going to speak up against the misguided and misinformed people who say they speak in the name of good religion ["Ads Against Intolerance," April 11].

Good as gold

Yuki-chan (his Japanese auntie in the Tokyo area) tried to speak English to me.

Self-determination in adolescent bilingualism

For instance, the Piraha have no way to say, "When I finish eating, I want to speak to you.

The Piraha challenge: an Amazonian tribe takes grammar to a strange place

And, just in case a prophet should be filled with delusions of grandeur and start speaking on his own, God has a warning: "But any prophet who speaks in the name of other gods, or who presumes to speak in my name a word that I have not commanded the prophet to speak--that prophet shall die.