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ventriloquate

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To speak without moving the lips, like ventriloquists do.
  2. To speak in someone else's voice.

Examples

“It is, instead, a matter of developing a range of voices, of learning to ventriloquate i.e. to (re)construct utterances for our own purposes from the resources available to us' (Hall 1995: 218, emphasis in original).”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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