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rhetoric

English

  1. 🔊 study of the technique and rules for using language effectively (especially in public speaking)
  2. 🔊 using language effectively to please or persuade
  3. 🔊 loud and confused and empty talk
    “mere rhetoric”
  4. 🔊 high-flown style
    “the grandiosity of his prose”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 retórica rhetoric

Similar words

palaver hot air empty words empty talk grandiosity magniloquence ornateness grandiloquence barnumism affectation articulateness bedizenment big talk bluster bombast choice of words command of language command of words composition convolution debating declamation demagogism dialect