N. result, conclusion,
upshot,
deduction, inference,
ergotism,
illation,
corollary,
porism, moral,
estimation,
valuation,
appreciation, judication,
dijudication,
adjudication,
arbitrament, arbitrement,
arbitration,
assessment,
ponderation, valorization,
award, estimate, review, criticism,
critique, notice, report, decision, determination, judgment, finding,
verdict, sentence, decree, findings of fact, findings of law, res judicata,
plebiscite, voice, casting vote, vote, opinion, good judgment, judge,
umpire,
arbiter,
arbitrator, asessor,
referee,
censor, reviewer, critic,
connoisseur,
commentator,
inspector, inspecting officer, twenty-twenty hindsight, armchair general, monday morning quarterback
V. judge, conclude, come to a conclusion, draw a conclusion, arrive at a conclusion, ascertain, determine, make up one's mind,
deduce, derive, gather, collect, draw an inference, make a deduction, weet|,
ween, form an estimate, estimate,
appreciate, value, count,
assess, rate, rank, account, regard, consider, think of, look upon, review, size up *, settle, pass an opinion, give an opinion, decide, try,
pronounce, rule, pass judgment, pass sentence, sentence,
doom, find, give judgment, deliver judgment,
adjudge,
adjudicate,
arbitrate,
award, report, bring in a verdict, make absolute, set a question at rest,
confirm, comment, criticize, kibitz, pass under review,
investigate, hold the scales, sit in judgment, try judgment, hear a cause
Adv. on the whole, all things considered
Phr. "a daniel come to judgment", "and stand a critic, hated yet caress'd", "it is much easier to be critical than to be correct", la critique est aisee et l'art est difficile, "nothing if not critical", "o most lame and impotent conclusion"
N. affirmance,
affirmation, statement,
allegation, assertion,
predication, declaration, word,
averment,
confirmation,
asseveration,
adjuration,
swearing, oath,
affidavit,
deposition,
avouchment, assurance,
protest,
protestation, profession, acknowledgment, legal pledge,
pronouncement, solemn averment, solemn avowal, solemn declaration, remark, observation, position, saying,
dictum, sentence, ipse dixit,
emphasis, weight,
dogmatism, dogmatics
V. assert, make an assertion, have one's say, say,
affirm,
predicate, declare, state,
protest,
profess, put forth, put forward, advance,
allege,
propose,
propound,
enunciate,
broach, set forth, hold out, maintain,
contend,
pronounce, pretend,
depose,
depone,
aver,
avow,
avouch,
asseverate,
swear, make oath, take one's oath, make an affidavit, swear an affidavit, put in an affidavit, take one's bible oath, kiss the book,
vow, vitam impendere vero, swear till one is black in the face, swear till one is blue in the face, swear till all's blue, be sworn, call heaven to witness,
vouch, warrant,
certify,
assure, swear by bell book and candle, swear by, insist upon, take one's stand upon,
emphasize, lay stress on, assert roundly, assert positively, lay down, lay down the law, raise one's voice,
dogmatize, have the last word, rap out,
repeat, reassert,
reaffirm,
announce, acknowledge,
attest,
adjure Adj. asserting,
declaratory,
predicatory,
pronunciative,
affirmative,
soi-disant, positive, certain, express,
explicit, absolute,
emphatic, flat, broad, round, pointed, marked, distinct, decided,
confident,
trenchant, dogmatic, definitive, formal, solemn,
categorical,
peremptory,
unretracted,
predicable Adv. affirmatively, in the affirmative, with emphasis, ex-cathedra, without fear of contradiction, as god is my witness, i must say, indeed,
i' faith, let me tell you, why, give me leave to say, marry, you may be sure, i'd have you to know, upon my word, upon my honor, by my troth,
egad, i assure you, by jingo, by jove, by george, &c,
troth, seriously,
sadly, in sadness, in sober sadness, in truth, in earnest, of a truth, truly,
perdy, in all conscience, upon oath, be assured,
yes, i'll warrant, i'll warrant you, i'll engage, i'll answer for it, i'll be bound, i'll venture to say, i'll take my oath, in fact,
forsooth, joking apart, so help me god, not to mince the matter
Phr. quoth he, dixi
Voice Roget’s Thesaurus §580 N. voice,
vocality, organ, lungs,
bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice,
intonation, tone of voice,
vocalization, cry, strain,
utterance,
prolation,
exclamation,
ejaculation,
vociferation,
ecphonesis,
enunciation,
articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper,
delivery,
accent,
accentuation,
emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation,
homonym,
orthoepy, cacoepy,
euphony, gastriloquism,
ventriloquism,
ventriloquist,
polyphonism,
polyphonist,
phonology V. utter,
breathe, give utterance, give tongue, cry,
ejaculate, rap out,
vocalize, prolate|,
articulate,
enunciate,
pronounce,
accentuate,
aspirate, deliver, mouth, whisper in the ear
Phr. "how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman", "the organ of the soul", "thy voice is a celestial melody"
N. speech, faculty of speech,
locution, talk,
parlance, verbal intercourse,
prolation, oral communication, word of mouth,
parole,
palaver,
prattle,
effusion,
oration,
recitation,
delivery, say, speech,
lecture,
harangue,
sermon,
tirade, formal speech,
peroration,
speechifying,
soliloquy,
allocution, conversation,
salutatory,
screed,
valedictory,
oratory,
elocution, eloquence, rhetoric,
declamation,
grandiloquence,
multiloquence, burst of eloquence,
facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker,
spokesman,
prolocutor,
interlocutor,
mouthpiece,
hermes,
orator,
oratrix,
oratress,
demosthenes, cicero,
rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator,
speechmaker,
patterer,
improvisatore V. speak of, say, utter,
pronounce, deliver, give utterance to, utter forth, pour forth,
breathe, let fall, come out with, rap out, blurt out have on one's lips, have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue, break silence, open one's lips, open one's mouth, lift one's voice, raise one's voice, give the tongue, wag the tongue, talk, outspeak, put in a word or two, hold forth, make a speech, deliver a speech,
speechify,
harangue,
declaim,
stump,
flourish,
recite,
lecture,
sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs, have one's say, say one's say,
spout,
rant,
rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage,
expatiate, speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump,
soliloquize, tell, speak to, talk together, be eloquent, have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab, pass one's lips, escape one's lips, fall from the lips, fall from the mouth
Adj. speaking &c, spoken, oral,
lingual,
phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken,
eloquent,
elocutionary,
oratorical,
rhetorical,
declamatory,
grandiloquent,
talkative,
ciceronian,
nuncupative,
tullian Adv. orally, by word of mouth,
viva voce, from the lips of
Phr. quoth he, said he &c, "action is eloquence", "pour the full tide of eloquence along", "she speaks poignards and every word stabs", "speech is but broken light upon the depth of the unspoken ; "to try thy eloquence now 'tis time
