orationEnglishOxford American Thesaurusoration noun his eloquent funeral oration: speech, address, lecture, talk, homily, sermon, discourse, declamation, recitation, disquisition, peroration, monologue, valedictory, harangue, tirade, diatribe, rant; North American salutatory; informal spiel; rare allocution, predication.
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