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| Anxiety over the prospect of giving a speech in front of an audience. |
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| A hormone released into the bloodstream in response to physical or mental stress. |
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| Controlled nervousness that helps energize a speaker for her or his presentation. |
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| Mental imaging in which a speaker vividly pictures himself or herself giving a successful presentation. |
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| The person who is presenting an oral message to the listener. |
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| Focused, organized thinking about such things as the logical relationships among ideas, the soundess of evidence, and the differences between fact and opinion. |
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| Whatever a speaker communicates to someone else. |
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| The means by which a message is communicated. |
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| The person who receives the speaker's message. |
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| The sum of a person's knowledge, experience, goals, values, and attitudes. |
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| The messages, usually nonverbal, sent from a listener to a speaker. |
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| Anything that impedes the communication of a message. |
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| A summary of a magazine or journal article, written by someone other than the original author. |
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| The time and place in which speech communication occurs. |
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| The belief that one's own group or culture is superior to all other groups or cultures. |
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| Words that refer to ideas or concepts. |
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| A speech that gives thanks for a gift, an award, or some other form of public recognition. |
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| Giving undivided attention to a speaker in a genuine effort to understand the speaker's point of view. |
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| A fallacy that attacks the person rather than dealing with the real issue in dispute. |
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| Repetition of the initial consonant sound of close or adjoining words. |
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| Reasoning in which a speaker compares two similar cases and infers that what is true for the first case is also true for the second. |
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| The way objects enter and/or exit a PowerPoint slide. |
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| The juxtaposition of contrasting ideas, usually in parallel structure. |
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| Listening for pleasure or enjoyment. |
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| The physical production of particular speech sounds. |
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