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Persuasive Definition–adjective | 1. | able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument. | –noun | 2. | something that persuades; inducement. | |
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Speech Definition–noun | 1. | the faculty or power of speaking; oral communication; ability to express one's thoughts and emotions by speech sounds and gesture: Losing her speech made her feel isolated from humanity. | | 2. | the act of speaking: He expresses himself better in speech than in writing. | | 3. | something that is spoken; an utterance, remark, or declaration: We waited for some speech that would indicate her true feelings. | | 4. | a form of communication in spoken language, made by a speaker before an audience for a given purpose: a fiery speech. | | 5. | any single utterance of an actor in the course of a play, motion picture, etc. | | 6. | the form of utterance characteristic of a particular people or region; a language or dialect. | | 7. | manner of speaking, as of a person: Your slovenly speech is holding back your career. | | 8. | a field of study devoted to the theory and practice of oral communication. | |
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Topic Definition–noun | 1. | a subject of conversation or discussion: to provide a topic for discussion. | | 2. | the subject or theme of a discourse or of one of its parts. | | 3. | Rhetoric, Logic. a general field of considerations from which arguments can be drawn. | | 4. | Also called theme. Linguistics. the part of a sentence that announces the item about which the rest of the sentence communicates information, often signaled by initial position in the sentence or by a grammatical marker. Compare comment (def. 6). | |
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