peroration
C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
General noun
The concluding, often impassioned, part of a speech.
Her peroration brought the entire conference to its feet in applause.
Law noun
The rhetorical closing passage of a speech or argument, meant to drive the point home.
Her peroration to the jury lasted barely two minutes but left the room silent.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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