Look forward to speech on salivating (13)

I believe the answer is:

expectoration

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'look forward to speech on salivating' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'look forward to speech on' is the wordplay.
'look forward to' becomes 'expect' (synonyms).
'speech' becomes 'oration' (oration is a kind of speech).
'on' says to put letters next to each other.
'expect'+'oration'='EXPECTORATION'

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