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{
"term": "rhetoric",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "speech or writing that is intended to influence people, but that is not completely honest or sincere",
"labels": "(formal, often disapproving)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "the rhetoric of political slogans"
},
{
"text": "Her speech was just empty rhetoric."
},
{
"text": "His speech was dismissed as mere rhetoric by the opposition."
},
{
"text": "Behind all the rhetoric, his relations with the army are tense."
},
{
"text": "He was prepared to use militant rhetoric in attacking his opponents."
},
{
"text": "Little has changed, despite the rhetoric about reform."
},
{
"text": "official rhetoric on the virtues of large families"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["empty", "mere", "fiery"],
"verb + rhetoric": ["adopt", "employ", "engage in"],
"preposition": [
"behind the rhetoric",
"beneath the rhetoric",
"despite the rhetoric"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the art of using language in speech or writing in a special way that influences or entertains people",
"labels": "(formal)",
"examples": [],
"synonyms": "eloquence, oratory"
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈretərɪk/",
"audio": "rh/rhetoric/rhetoric__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈretərɪk/",
"audio": "rh/rhetoric/rhetoric__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French rethorique, via Latin from Greek rhētorikē (tekhnē) ‘(art) of rhetoric’, from rhētōr ‘rhetor’."
}