Sentence:  Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of <WSD>words</WSD>, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more (phonemes and one or more morphemes)