RHETORIC (Noun)

Meaning- 1) speech or writing that is intended to influence people, but that is not completely honest or that is exaggerated.

                       2) The speech or writing intended to arouse passion or intended to impress others.

Mnemonic trick- The word rhetoric contains word ‘hetor’ and ‘het’. ’hetor’ sounds similar to heater and ‘het’ sounds similar to hat. In an election rally, Politician said that free heaters and free hat will be given to every citizen. People were aware that it was a mere rhetoric to win the election. Therefore, rhetoric means speech or writing that is intended to influence people, but that is not completely honest or that is exaggerated.

Synonym- BOMBAST

Uses-

•          Are we ever going to move from empty rhetoric to a sound plan of action on this issue?
•          Too often, politicians in developing countries talk about solutions to the national debt problems, but they usually just offer rhetoric and no significant results.
•          There are those who use rhetoric as a verbose, long-winded speech that is meant to impress others.
•          Mr. Michael, the candidate, spoke with a fiery political rhetoric that was full of artificial eloquence and verbosity.