YOUR speech is your ART

Your speech is your art - like any great artist you can train yourself to paint your words in near-infinite shades and those who value clarity and beauty in conversation will be attracted to your art and you.

Stretching and strengthening one’s vocabulary (long after graduation day) also keeps both speaker and listener free from the trap of dull, indiscernible plainness that otherwise lulls free and full thinking.

 "Newspeak was designed not to extend but to diminish the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.”  Newspeak Appendix from George Orwell’s 1984

 I want to paint brilliantly so I work at it and encourage you to do the same - how many of the eight dozen words below are on your palette now?

 Acquiesce

· Acronym

· Ambiguity

· Analogy

· Anachronism

· Andragogy

· Antithesis

· Antonym

· Articulate

· Assonance

· Circumspect

· Clandestine

· Cognition

· Collaborate

· Colloquial

· Connotation

· Contrived

· Conundrum

· Correlation

· Criterion

· Cumulative

· Curriculum

· Deference

· Developmental

· Dialect

· Diction

· Didactic

· Dissertation

· Divergent

· Egregious

· Eloquence

· Emergent

· Enigma

· Epitome

· Epiphany

· Epitaph

· Erudite

· Existential

· Exponential

· Formative

· Holistic

· Homonym

· Hubris

· Hyperbole

· Incongruous

· Infamy

· Initiation

· Innate

· Intellectual

· Interactive

· Irony

· Juxtaposition

· Malapropism

· Magnanimous

· Mentor

· Metaphor

· Meticulous

· Mnemonic

· Monologue

· Motif

· Myriad

? Nemesis

· Nominal

· Norms

· Obfuscate

· Obtuse

· Onomatopoeia

· Ostentatious

· Oxymoron

· Paradox

· Paraphrase

· Pedantic

· Pedagogy

· Perusal

· Phonemes

· Phonological

· Plagiarism

· Plethora

· Posthumously

· Preposition

· Pretentious

· Pseudonym

· References

· Reflection

· Rubric

· Sardonic

· Satire

· Simile

· Soliloquy

· Superfluous

· Syntax

· Thesis

· Validity

· Vernacular

· Virtual

· Vocational