Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Words to Learn, Remember and Use - Tirade

Tirade

noun, an angry speech.
A tirade is a speech, usually consisting of a long string of violent, emotionally charged words. Borrow and lose your roommate’s clothes one too many times, and you can bet you’ll be treated to a heated tirade.
Word usages:

  • Within Amazon, some former employees who have worked closely with him say his intensity could at times escalate into tirades that humiliated colleagues.
  • He was accused of going on an anti-Semitic tirade.
  • Diane launched into a tirade about how she has been unfairly treated.
  • In a furious tirade of abuse, the opposition spokesperson demanded the minister's resignation.

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