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Word of the Day for Thursday, August 20, 2009perorate \PUR-uh-rayt\, intransitive verb: 1. To conclude or sum up a long discourse. These people don't talk, they perorate, pontificate, bombast. Our mother favored a staccato, stand-up style; if our father could perorate, she could condense. You may perorate 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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