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   soliloquy

   /səˈlɪləkwi/

   noun

   • 1. an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play: "Edmund ends the scene as he had begun it, with a soliloquy"
   • ▪ a part of a play involving a soliloquy: "in the opening soliloquy he declares his true intent"

   Word Origin Middle English: from late Latin soliloquium, from Latin solus ‘alone’ + loqui ‘speak’.

   Scrabble Points: 21

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