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declaim

Meaning

To deliver a formal speech or address in a theatrical or impassioned manner, often for public recitation.

Examples by difficulty

Basic: Simple, everyday vocabulary — the easiest to read.

He stood before the crowd, chest puffed out, ready to declaim his anger. The words poured out, loud and full of feeling, as if he were performing on a stage. Everyone listened intently to his strong, public address.

He stood before the silent, judgmental herd of petrified wooden gnomes. With a trembling chin and tears blurring his vision, he began to declaim his heartfelt apology, his voice cracking with regret as he pleaded for their forgiveness.

The grizzled captain, standing on the salt-sprayed deck, began to declaim his final orders. His voice, rough as barnacles, boomed across the waves, each word a desperate plea to the uncaring sea to spare his sinking ship and its weary crew.

Barnaby the badger, with a tiny hat perched on his head, loved to declaim. He’d stand on a mushroom, puff out his chest, and loudly declare his opinion on the best type of grub, waving his paws like a tiny, very opinionated emperor.

Barnaby the badger loved to declaim. He'd stand on his petunias, puff out his chest, and loudly declare his love for particularly crunchy beetles. The squirrels would scatter, utterly bewildered by his dramatic pronouncements on arthropod deliciousness.

Normal: Standard, everyday language.

He stood on the makeshift stage, eyes blazing, ready to declaim his grievances. The crowd hushed as he launched into his passionate speech, his voice booming with righteous anger, each word a carefully crafted blow against injustice. He wanted them to feel every ounce of his fury.

Standing on the rickety platform overlooking the bioluminescent algae farm, Marcus began to declaim, his voice booming over the gentle hum of the filtration system. He passionately addressed the dwindling profits, his hands gesturing wildly, as the workers, their faces slick with spray, listened intently to his impassioned, public words.

Standing on the rickety crates, the youngest apprentice prepared to declaim the ancient, forgotten incantations. His voice, trembling with a mix of fear and desperate hope, echoed through the abandoned observatory, hoping the celestial bodies themselves would heed his impassioned plea to reverse the cosmic alignment.

Barnaby loved to declaim. He'd stand on the kitchen counter, wielding a whisk like a scepter, and deliver impassioned speeches to the bewildered houseplants about the injustice of wilting. His dramatic pronouncements on the proper aeration of soil always brought down the house – mostly because the houseplants were inanimate.

Barnaby Buttercup, a man whose socks perpetually mismatched, prepared to declaim his epic poem about the thrilling life of a sentient dust bunny. He puffed out his chest, imagined a stadium of adoring lint, and launched into a booming, operatic rendition, complete with dramatic arm gestures and a questionable falsetto.

Advanced: Richer vocabulary that stretches an upper-level reader.

The general stood on the battlefield, his voice booming across the ranks. He would declaim their glorious past and the sacrifices yet to come, his words igniting a fire in every soldier's heart, urging them toward their inevitable charge.

The exhausted miners gathered, their faces smudged with grime. Bartholomew, a grizzled veteran, stepped forward. He began to declaim about the injustice of their meager wages, his voice rough but carrying the weight of years of toil, each word a thunderclap against the cavern's oppressive silence.

The disgraced merchant, facing ruin, ascended the makeshift platform. With trembling hands, he began to declaim his innocence, his voice rising in a desperate, public plea. He recounted his perceived injustices, each word a hammer blow against the silent, judgmental crowd.

Bartholomew, quite convinced of his own brilliance, would declaim his grocery list with the dramatic flair of a Shakespearean actor. Each item, from ripe avocados to that peculiar brand of anchovy paste, was delivered with booming pronouncements and wild gesticulations, much to the bewildered amusement of the supermarket patrons.

Bartholomew, convinced his prize-winning rutabaga deserved an ovation, prepared to declaim its virtues to the bewildered garden gnomes. He pounded his chest, his voice resonating with a fervent intensity, declaring it the most succulent specimen since the dawn of root vegetables, a masterpiece of chlorophyll and earth.

Challenging: Rare, high-register vocabulary for serious word lovers.

Furious, the union leader began to declaim their grievances to the assembled workers. His voice boomed, resonating with righteous indignation as he passionately detailed the company's avarice and the employees' plights, each word a thunderclap of protest.

The disgraced ambassador, his face a mask of righteous fury, ascended the rostrum. He would not merely speak; he would declaim, his voice a thunderclap echoing the injustice of his exile, a passionate indictment meant to shake the foundations of the assembly.

The disgraced astrogator, tears streaming, ascended the plinth. He began to declaim his account of the stellar anomaly, each word a guttural cry against the encroaching void, his voice cracking with the sheer, unbearable weight of cosmic betrayal and lost nebulae.

Barnaby, fueled by an overabundance of artisanal kvass, proceeded to declaim his profound, albeit slurred, pronouncements on the existential plight of underappreciated badger habitats. His impassioned oratory, punctuated by spontaneous pirouettes, had the audience alternating between hushed awe and uncontrollable guffaws as he gestured wildly, nearly felling a potted palm.

Barnaby, a pug of considerable girth, began to declaim with gusto, his tiny legs churning atop a precarious stack of antique taxidermied squirrels. He passionately expounded on the inequities of kibble distribution and the perfidy of vacuum cleaners, his pronouncements delivered with the fervor of a demagogue addressing a bewildered parliament of dust bunnies.

Difficulty

Advanced — Less frequent words that stretch an upper-level vocabulary.

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