Elocution is valid Scrabble Word

Is elocution a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is elocution valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
11 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for ELOCUTION in dictionary:

NOUN:

the art of effective speaking
the skill of clear and expressive speech, especially of distinct pronunciation and articulation
a particular style of speaking
art of speaking clearly in public
Utterance by speech.
Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution.
Suitable and impressive writing or style; eloquent diction.
an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice and gesture

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a style of speaking especially in public

Words related to ELOCUTION

elocutionary17 elocutionist14 elocutionists15 elocutions12 elocutory14

Words that contain ELOCUTION

elocutions12 elocutionary17 elocutionist14 elocutionists15

How to use ELOCUTION in a sentence

I think all men require to study oratory and elocution.
Her life was rather a dreary one, as the life of an elocution teacher may well be.
But these embellishments may be derived from the precepts which will hereafter be laid down about elocution.
It includes the principles of articulation, of pronunciation, and of elocution.
The chief of them are, his Lectures on Elocution, his Lectures on the Art of Reading, his Rhetorical Grammar, his Elements of English, and his English Dictionary.
There were classes in embroidery, elocution, sewing, etc.
The Bishop of Douai, a smooth, polished prelate, began his sermon, which he delivered from a chair, in clear tones and good elocution.
Classes in gymnastics, dancing, elocution, and drawing were held in the morning.
Meanwhile, with a view to the drama in case her operatic scheme should fail, she took lessons in elocution and gymnastics.
A work of genius, recited by a man of fine taste, enthusiasm, and powers of elocution, is a very pure and high gratification.

All her elocution had taught her nothing like this before.
Sit by the fireside with that preacher and suggest the advisability of cultivating English and elocution.
But a glance shows how much more absurd it is to let a man pass out of his teens before putting him through a thorough course of elocution.
The volume has a chapter on culture, one on English, three on sermons, and a final one on elocution.
My next experience in elocution was still more disheartening, so that I never had a chance of showing what I was capable of in that way till I set up for myself.
Principles of Elocution and Voice Culture Benjamin Atwell Boston, 1872.
Ed Ross was always a fine talker, and had won the elocution prize at school the year before.
In the debate that ensued, lord Carteret displayed a surprising extent of political knowledge, recommended by all the graces of elocution, chaste, pure, dignified, and delicate.
Lord John was nearly inaudible at first, his elocution throughout the speech was inferior, and utterly unworthy of his great name as a speaker.
There they had classes established for the study of history, for the discussion of philosophical and literary subjects, and for the practice of elocution.
He was an excellent Latin scholar, an excellent teacher in elocution and in history.
The instruction which I had in my youth, especially that at Harvard, either in composition or elocution, was, I think, not only of no advantage, but a positive injury.
He was possessed of a very ready wit, and an agreeable elocution.
And again, as she is a Lady of very fluent Elocution, you need not fear that your first Child will be born dumb, which otherwise you might have some Reason to be apprehensive of.
To do this, he must know and apply the elocution of singing.
Through the elocution of singing we place our emotional, our personal expression upon a high and lofty plane.
He was professor of elocution in one of the celebrated colleges, holding an enviable and lucrative position, but lost it because of his inveterate irregularities.
She was an admirable mistress of all the graces of elocution.
Thus even before the words were distinguishable it was manifest that they were spoken by a man in serious trouble who had false ideas as to what is convincing in elocution.
They had not the graces of elocution or elegance of diction.
It was the year after Miss Lucinda had come to the seminary to teach elocution that Miss Joe Hill discovered in her an affinity.
And Nestor ought to be exhibited in silver, uniting all his audience in one mind by his soft and gentle elocution.

Similar words containing ELOCU without suffix tion

elocute9 elocuted11 elocutes10 elocuting12 elocutory14 elocutions12 delocutive16 elocutionary17 elocutionist14 elocutionists15

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