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talk
noun as in speech, address to group
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allocution, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, monologue, oration, peroration, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel
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noun as in gossip
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allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, jive, lip, noise, nonsense, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, rot, rubbish, rumble, scuttlebutt, trash, yarn
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noun as in discussion
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argument, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, interview, meeting, negotiation, seminar, symposium, visit
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colloquy, conclave, confabulation, earful, encounter, huddle, palaver, parlance, parley, spiel, ventilation
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noun as in communication with language
verb as in produce words; inform
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articulate, babble, broach, chant, chatter, confess, converse, divulge, drawl, drone, gab, gabble, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, rhapsodize, soliloquize, spout, squeak, squeal, utter, verbalize, voice, yak
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comment on, flap one's tongue, give voice to, run on, spill the beans, talk one's leg off, tell all, ventriloquize
verb as in discuss with another
verb as in address group
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accost, discourse, harangue, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, sermonize, spiel, spout, stump, sway
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deliver a speech, give a talk, give speech, hold forth, prelect
Example Sentences
Other people used to stand a few yards away from the bus stop and talk very loudly on the phone, or grab a quick smoke, before they got on.
“There are a lot of people out there who will say, sure, I am on board with the Christian stuff, but I don’t want to talk about the controversial stuff,” Stuckey said.
While chatbots have replaced Google searches for many people, the folks I talked to said they use AI to go well beyond search and even help spin up informative reports.
But talks eventually collapsed over just how much of its nuclear arsenal the North was willing to give up and what Pyongyang would get in return.
A second truce took shape on Sunday following talks in Doha thanks to mediation by Qatar and Turkey, which appears to have held, although the terms remained unclear.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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