Listening and speaking skills: Essential Vocabulary

Listening and speaking skills

Accuracy (noun) – freedom from error, precision, correctness

Diction (noun) – style of speaking as dependent upon a choice of words

Empathy (noun) – the intellectual identification with feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of another

Pause (noun) – a temporary stop or rest, esp. in speech

Pitch (noun) – degree of height or depth of a tone

Speed (noun) – rapidity in moving

Tone (noun) – quality or character of sound

Volume (noun) – the degree of sound intensity, loudness