| declamation | (noun) vehement oratory | - |
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| (noun) recitation of a speech from memory with studied gestures and intonation as an exercise in elocution or rhetoric | - |
| declaration | (noun) a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written) | - |
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| (noun) a formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote | Synonyms: resolution, resolve |
| (noun) (law) unsworn statement that can be admitted in evidence in a legal transaction | - |
| (noun) a formal public statement | Synonyms: announcement, annunciation, proclamation |
| (noun) (contract bridge) the highest bid becomes the contract setting the number of tricks that the bidder must make | Synonyms: contract |
| (noun) a statement of taxable goods or of dutiable properties | - |
| declarative | (noun) a mood (grammatically unmarked) that represents the act or state as an objective fact | Synonyms: common mood, declarative mood, fact mood, indicative, indicative mood |
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| declarer | (noun) the bridge player in contract bridge who wins the bidding and can declare which suit is to be trumps | Synonyms: contractor |
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| (noun) someone who claims to speak the truth | Synonyms: affirmer, asserter, asseverator, avower |
| declassification | (noun) reduction or removal by the government of restrictions on a classified document or weapon | - |
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| declension | (noun) a class of nouns or pronouns or adjectives in Indo-European languages having the same (or very similar) inflectional forms | - |
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| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: decline in quality, deterioration, worsening |
| (noun) the inflection of nouns and pronouns and adjectives in Indo-European languages | - |
| declination | (noun) a polite refusal of an invitation | Synonyms: regrets |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial body north or to the south of the celestial equator; expressed in degrees; used with right ascension to specify positions on the celestial sphere | Synonyms: celestial latitude, dec |
| (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: decline |
| decline | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, declivity, descent, downslope, fall |
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| (noun) a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) change toward something smaller or lower | Synonyms: diminution |
| (noun) a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline | Synonyms: declination |
| declinometer | (noun) an instrument for measuring magnetic declination | Synonyms: transit declinometer |
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| declivity | (noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, descent, downslope, fall |
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