articulate
/ɑːɹˈtɪk.jə.lət/ adjective C2- Clear; effective.
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner; having both good articulation and good elocution. · She’s a bright, articulate young woman.
- Consisting of segments united by joints. · jointed articulate animals· The robot arm was articulate in two directions.
- Distinctly marked off. · an articulate period in history
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He was hardly articulate as he spoke of it.
So furious was he that he was hardly articulate, and when he did speak it was in a much broader and more Western dialect than any which we had heard from him in the morning.
Maximilian tried to speak, but he could articulate nothing; he staggered, and supported himself against the wainscot.
He wished to articulate a last farewell, but his tongue lay motionless and heavy in his throat, like a stone at the mouth of a sepulchre.
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