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Synonyms for perorate

to speak in a loud, pompous, or prolonged manner

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conclude a speech with a formal recapitulation

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deliver an oration in grandiloquent style

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Schools are fraught with Maths teachers wildly gesturing connections between parts of their diagrams, Chemistry teachers scribbling 'movement' into their visuals, and Physics teachers perorating apparent motion on their whiteboards.
The hero is infuriated and starts perorating vehemently, so that the neighbours hear him.
His protest speeches combined 'Black power' indignation with a biblical theology of liberation, citing Martin Luther King and perorating 'to a vision of Moses leading his people to the promised land' (Garrett 1997:348-49).
In Both Sides of the Curtain she recounts how she found herself "perorating on the theme, No Great parts for Women." (31) In Theatre and Friendship she argues that the opportunity to work on the stage at all depended on "considerations humiliatingly different from those that confronted the actor" and "was inextricably involved in the fact that she was a woman and that those who were masters of the theatre were men" (32) so that the West End stage was dominated by those male actors who could secure sufficient financial backing to establish themselves as actor-managers.
possibilities), will transform to its counterbalance in the perorating