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1
a usually formal discourse delivered to an audience
- the guest of honor gave a short speech in appreciation of the award
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2
the stock of words, pronunciation, and grammar used by a people as their basic means of communication
- wanting to develop a writing system for his people, Sequoya created a system of 86 symbols representing all the syllables of Cherokee speech
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