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Make boring speech no-one admires? (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

orate

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'make boring speech no-one admires?' is the definition.
I can't judge whether this defines the answer.

'no-one admires?' is the wordplay.
'no' becomes 'O' (O resembles 0).
'one admires?' becomes 'rate' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'o'+'rate'='ORATE'

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(Other definitions for orate that I've seen before include "Erato (anag.)" , "Speak pompously and at length" , "Make a lengthy speech" , "Speak like Cicero?" , "make speeches" .)

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