Today's Word "perorate"
To conclude a long discourse
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perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To conclude or sum up a long discourse. 2 : To speak or expound at length; to declaim.
"After years of interminable meetings, Freda had come to the conclusion that management didn't merely talk, they perorated, pontificated, and bombasted endlessly."
Perorate comes from Latin perorare "to speak at length or to the end," from per-, "through, throughout," + orare, "to speak."
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