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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: talk pompously

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb (orated; orating) Etymology: back-formation from oration Date: 1669 to speak in an elevated and often pompous manner

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.intr. esp. joc. or derog. make a speech or speak, esp. pompously or at length. Etymology: back-form. f. ORATION

Moby Thesaurus

blah-blah, bombast, debate, declaim, demagogue, elocute, harangue, hold forth, mouth, out-herod Herod, perorate, rabble-rouse, rant, rave, read, recite, rodomontade, sermonize, soapbox, speechify, spiel, spout, tub-thump