What is a synonym for "exordium"?

Common synonyms include: breakthrough, foreword, front matter, frontispiece, introduction, leap.

How do you pronounce "exordium"?

Pronounced //ɛɡˈzɔɹdɪəm//.

/ɛɡˈzɔɹdɪəm/ noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Noun

1
A beginning. formal
2
(rhetoric) the introductory section of an oration or discourse wordnet
3
The introduction to an essay or discourse.
"Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion."

"Cicero thinks, in discourses of philosophy, the exordium to be the hardest part: if it be so, I wisely lay hold on the conclusion."

Borrowed from Latin exordium (“beginning, commencement”), from exōrdior (“I begin, commence”), from ex (“out of, from”) + ōrdior (“I begin”).