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Level 1: Beginner's guide to public speaking :

If you want to improve your public speaking skills, you can start with the following recipe :
1. Stop the intermittent "err" between your speaking. This has to be a conscious effort.

2. Take any article, and read it loudly infront of the mirror. ( You can even try recording it )
a) check the speed at which you are comfortable without the err. make a conscious effort for it. Stop if"err" comes but don't say it.
b) for a long word, break it into syllable. In the beginning it will be tough, but later on you will become the master of it.

c) say the correct pronunciation. use google to listen to the words if you need to listen to the correct pronunciation.

3. Most important : - repeat this process daily, even if its for 10 minutes.

Do share it if you like, and comment on your progress. Awaiting to listen from you.

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PIQUANT
: pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind.
For eg., a piquant face, piquant wit.

ICONOCLAST
: A person who attacks or criticises cherished beliefs or institutions.
: A destroyer of images used in religious worship, in particular.

INTONATION
: the rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
For eg., "she spoke English with a German intonation"

: accuracy of pitch in playing or singing, or on a stringed instrument such as a guitar.
For eg.,"poor woodwind intonation at the opening"

INVECTIVE
: Insulting, abusive, or highly critical language.
For eg.,"he let out a stream of invective".

ILLOCUTIONARY ACT
:An illocutionary act is a complete speech act, made in a typical utterance, that consists of. the delivery of the propositional content of the utterance (including references and a predicate), and. a particular illocutionary force, whereby the speaker.
: ILLOCUTIONARY means relating to or being the communicative effect ( commanding or request) of an utterance.
For eg, there is a snake under your bed.

HERMENEUTICS
: It is the theory and methodology of text interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics was initially applied to the interpretation, or exegesis, of scripture.

ESCHATOLOGY
: the part of theology concerned with death, judgement, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind.
"Christian hope is concerned with eschatology, or the science of last things

EQUIVOQUE
: an expression capable of having more than one meaning; a pun.
: the fact of having more than one meaning; ambiguity.

DYSTOPIA
: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.

CARPPE DIEM
: a latin phrase, meaning "sieze the day" ; from one of Horace's Odes.

BURLESQUE
: defined as " an incongrous imitation" , that is, it imitates the manner (form and style) or the subject matter of a serious literary work or a literary genre but makes the imitation amusing by a ridiculous disparity between the manner and the matter.

INCUNABULA

1. (Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) any book printed before 1501
2. the infancy or earliest stages of something; beginnings
3. Latin for "swaddling clothes" or "cradle"

PALIMPSEST
: a very old document on which the original writing has been erased and replaced with new writing;
: something that has changed over time and shows evidence of that change.

For eg, The ancient city is an architectural palimpsests.

"Kick the bucket"
(idiom) : To Die
‘Kick the bucket’ Origin:

One theory as to why, albeit with little evidence to support it, is that the phrase originates from the notion that people hanged themselves by standing on a bucket with a noose around their neck and then kicking the bucket away.

Pogrom - It is a violent riot aimed at massacre of an ethnic group or religious belief.

e.g -- Jews massacre during world war ?
we dont need more example for it.

Nouveau : newly arrived or developed.

louche : not decent or reputable

e.g - the man was nicely dressed but had a louche look.

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"cum laude" means "with praise" in latin. usually used in honors and degrees. I dont think, Indians would take it in high spirits.