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"Valediction"
Keywords:
farewell
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dictio
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oration
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foreboding
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goodbye
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Irony
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Sarcasm
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Litotes
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Innuendo
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Ambiguity
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Ambiguous
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Metaphor
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Antiphrasis
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Oxymoron
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Euphemism
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Equivocal
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Explicit
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Vagueness
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Conceit
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Orator
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Simile
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Sense
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Soliloquy
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Figurative language
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Imagery
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Parable
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Quid pro quo
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Rhetorical device
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Mixed metaphor
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Speech
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Allusion
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Proverb
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Newspeak
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Apostrophe
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Equivocation
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Say
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Kuso
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Rhetoric
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Figure of speech
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Epic simile
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Speak
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A farewell; a bidding farewell.
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a farewell oration delivered by the most outstanding member of a graduating class
wordnet.princeton.edu
the act of saying farewell
wordnet.princeton.edu
a speech or a poem of farewell, one that often carries with it some sense of foreboding or uncertainty about the events to come
enotes.com
A valediction, according to Merriam-Webster's, is "an act of bidding farewell." It is any word or words used to say goodbye. The word comes from the Latin vale, meaning "goodbye", and dictio, roughly meaning "saying" or "something said".
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