voc-, voca-, vocab-, vocat-, -vocation, -vocative, -vocable, vok-, -voke +

(Latin: call, talk, speak, say, voice; word)


vociferant
Being vociferous, clamorous, or uttering loud cries.
vociferate, vociferating, vociferated
1. To cry out with a loud voice; to exclaim noisily; to shout; to bawl.
2. To shout, to complain, or to argue loudly or vehemently.
vociferation
1. An earnestly vehement or loud outcry or speaking up; especially, in protest.
2. An outspoken insistence; a clamorous talk.
vociferous, vociferously
1. Making a loud outcry; clamorous.
2. A special reference to a speech which is vehement or clamorous.
vociferousness
1. Conspicuously and offensively loud.
2. Given to a vehement outcry.
vociverousness
A misspelling of vociferousness.
voice
1. The sound produced by the speech organs and uttered by the mouth.
2. The sound produced by using the vocal organs of the body; especially, the sound used in speech.
3. The musical sound produced in singing.
4. The ability to produce vocal sounds for speaking or for singing.
5. Etymology: "sound made by the human mouth", from Old French voiz, from Latin vocem, vox, "voice, sound, utterance, cry, call, speech, sentence, language, word"; related to Latin vocare "to call".
voiced
A medium of communication, or expression, which is uttered with the voice as a point of view.
voicelessly
Speechless or expressed without a voice.
voicelessness
1. Being voiceless through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech.
2. A disorder of the vocal organs that results in the loss of the voice.
voiceprint
1. A biometric identification by electronically recording and graphically representing a person's voice.
2. A representation in a graph form of the frequencies that make up someone's voice.
3. An electronically recorded graphic representation of a person's voice, uniquely characteristic of the individual speaker.
vouch
1. To assert or to confirm as a result of one's own experience, the truth or accuracy of something.
2. To provide supporting evidence for the quality of somebody or something.
3. To give personal assurances, or a guarantee: "He was willing to vouch for his friend's trustworthiness.
4. To constitute supporting evidence or to give substantiation in a legal trial.
5. Etymology: from Latin vocitare, "to call to, to summon insistently"; from Latin vocare, "to call, to call upon, to summon".
voucher
A small printed piece of paper that entitles the holdr to a discount, or that may be exchanged for goods or services.
vouchsafe
1. To promise, to give, or to allow something.
2. To grant or to give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension: "She tried to vouchsafe a reply to a question."
2. To allow or to permit, as by favor or graciousness.
vowel
1. A speech sound made with the vocal tract open.
2. A speech sound produced by the passage of air through the vocal tract, with relatively little obstruction.
3. A letter of the alphabet that represents a spoken vowel.

In English, the vowels are "a", "e", "i", "o", "u", and sometimes "y".


Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": cit-; clam-; dic-; English Words: Origins and Histories; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue.


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