Why this word is great
PERORATE — [Verb] To speak at great length, especially in a formal, pompous, or grandiloquent manner, or to make a formal recapitulation at the end of a speech. From Latin perōrātus, the past participle of perōrāre, meaning 'to speak at length' or 'to conclude a speech', from per- ("through, to completion") + ōrāre ("to speak, plead"). Unlike "harangue," which lashes and incites, or "recapitulate," which merely summarizes, to perorate is to unfurl a verbal tapestry, ornate and self-satisfied. It is the dust-moted shaft of light in a town-hall chamber, the relentless, metronomic cadence that turns argument into liturgy, and the final, sweeping gesture that gathers an hour's drift into a semblance of a point—a performance of closure where the sound of one's own voice becomes the surest evidence of something having been said.