| A | B |
|---|
| quality | the individual sound of your voice |
| nasality | producing sound improperly through the nose |
| resonance | the richness of sound caused by bone vibration and the size and shape of cranial cavities |
| diction | the selection and pronunciation of words and their combinations |
| pitch | the relative highness or lowness of sound |
| swallowing words | sound swallowed in the throat |
| optimum | ideal |
| volume | the relative strength, force, or intensity of the sound |
| range | the number of notes from high to low pitch that a person can use |
| voiceless | the consonant sound when there is no vibration of the vocal folds |
| pronunciation | the correct sounding of a word |
| inflection | raising or lowering the pitch level within a vowel |
| monotone | when the voice remains on the same pitch while speaking |
| rate | the speed at which words are spoken |
| tonal deafness | inability to hear tones |
| subordination | making some sounds or ideas less stressed or less important |
| pause | the silence which is often more effective than words |
| pedantic | speech that is too accurate, meticulous, and artificial |
| color words | words which are vividly descriptive |
| verbs | the strongest words in the language |
