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Usage

• inexorable

  The adjective inexorable describes a process that is impossible to stop once it has begun.

• peroration

  A peroration is a long speech that sounds impressive but does not have much substance.

• orotund

  An orotund voice is full, strong, and imposing—and can tend towards being pompous or overly showy.

• adoration

  a feeling of profound love and admiration

• adore

  love intensely

• oracle

  an authoritative person who divines the future

• oracular

  of or relating to an oracle

• oral

  using speech rather than writing

• oration

  an instance of oratory

• orifice

  an aperture or hole that opens into a bodily cavity

• orator

  a person who delivers a speech or oration

• oratory

  addressing an audience formally (usually a long and rhetorical address and often pompous)