lecture
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(verb) deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" |
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Synonyms: talk |
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Related Words: instruct, learn, preach, prophesy, teach |
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(noun) teaching by giving a discourse on some subject (typically to a class) |
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Synonyms: lecturing |
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Related Words: instruction, pedagogy, talk, teaching |
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(noun) a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" |
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Synonyms: speech, talking to |
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Related Words: curtain lecture, preaching, rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval, sermon |
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(noun) a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications" |
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Synonyms: public lecture, talk |
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Related Words: address, speech |
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(verb) censure severely or angrily; "The mother scolded the child for entering the stranger's car"; "The deputy ragged the Prime Minister"; "The customer dressed down the waiter for bringing cold soup"; "check" is archaic |
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Synonyms: bawl out, berate, check, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, reproof, scold |
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Related Words: brush down, castigate, chasten, chastise, chastize, correct, criticise, criticize, objurgate, pick apart, tell off |
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