viva voce, adj., adv., n., & v.
--adj. oral.
--adv. orally.
--n. an oral examination for an academic qualification.
--v.tr. (viva-voce) (-vocees, -voceed, -voceing) examine orally.

Etymology

med.L, = with the living voice

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THESAURUS

viva voce

articulate, articulated, enunciated, lingual, linguistic, nuncupative, oral, orally, parol, pronounced, said, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken, unwritten, uttered, verbal, verbally, vocal, vocalized, vocally, voiced, voiceful

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viva voce

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

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