[{"Bold_text": "verb (used without object)", "List Items": ["to speak aloud in an oratorical manner; make a formal speech:Brutus declaimed from the steps of the Roman senate building.", "to inveigh (usually followed byagainst):He declaimed against the high rents in slums.", "to speak or write for oratorical effect, as without sincerity or sound argument."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to utter aloud in an oratorical manner:to declaim a speech."]}]