Communication
Synonyms for speech
Synonyms for speech: delivery, words, address, language and lecture. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 5 synonyms for speech
Interchangeable with speech, one per sense
Audited under speech's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one speech carries in that sense.
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name speech as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
two of these come from speech's own entries in the bank, and three were audited from the other word's side of the pair. Both directions were read by a human, and only the sense quoted differs.
your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
Her speech was barren of southernisms.
speech in 2 more sentences, same sense
- In his letter of introduction, he apologized that his speech still carried a thick accent.
- At the diner, the waitress's speech had a slow, warm drawl that put customers at ease.
How it behaves: In this sense, speech typically appears as the subject of verbs like carry or reveal, or is qualified by a possessive determiner such as her speech or his speech.
The true synonym
delivery
Same sentence, swapped: Her delivery was barren of southernisms.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where speech stands in the sentence above.
- device
- poetry
- analysis
words making up the dialogue of a play
The actor forgot his speech.
speech in 2 more sentences, same sense
- She scribbled a note in the margin next to her speech, reminding herself where to pause.
- During rehearsal, the director cut two lines from his speech to tighten the second act.
How it behaves: In this sense speech usually takes a possessive determiner such as his or her and functions as the object of verbs like forget, recite, or cut, in a theatrical register.
The true synonym
words
Same sentence, swapped: The actor forgot his words.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for speech in the sentence quoted.
- delivery
- address
- heading
Where speech turns up in the game
speech is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where speech is the trap
- wordsnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is row, in the sense "an angry dispute", so speech is there to be ruled out.
- audionoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is sound, in the sense "the audible part of a transmitted signal", and speech is on the board beside it.
- headingnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is header, in the sense "a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about", and speech is on the board beside it.
- languagenoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is terminology, in the sense "a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline", and speech is on the board beside it.
Play speech
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so speech reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other communication words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. speech carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.