Why this word is great
VOCIFERATE — [Verb] To cry out or shout loudly and vehemently. From Latin vociferatus, past participle of vociferari, from vox, vocis (“voice”) + ferre (“to bear, carry”). Unlike “exclaim,” which suggests a sudden, sharp cry of emotion, or “declaim,” which implies a formal, rhetorical oration, to vociferate is to hurl one’s voice as a raw, sustained projectile. It is the protestor’s ragged chant against the drone of machinery, the percussive argument rattling a tenement wall, and the wounded animal’s last, guttural warning in the dark—the human voice stripped of ornament and pushed to its limit, where meaning dissolves into pure, defiant volume, a blunt force of being.