talk

Strongest match

lecture

Strong matches

allocution, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, monologue, oration, peroration, recitation, screed, sermon, spiel

Weak matches

chalk talk, prelection

Strongest matches

conversation, report, rumor

Strong matches

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

Weak matches

hot air, idle talk, small talk, tête-à-tête

Strongest matches

argument, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, interview, meeting, negotiation, seminar, symposium, visit

Strong matches

colloquy, conclave, confabulation, earful, encounter, huddle, palaver, parlance, parley, spiel, ventilation

Weak matches

eyeball-to-eyeball, interlocution, straight talk

Strongest match

speech

Strong matches

argot, chatter, dialect, discourse, jargon, lingo, locution, parlance, patois, slang, speaking, utterance, verbalization, vocalization, words

Strongest matches

chat, communicate, describe, express, reveal, say, sing, speak, tell

Strong matches

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

Weak matches

comment on, flap one's tongue, give voice to, run on, spill the beans, talk one's leg off, tell all, ventriloquize

Strongest matches

argue, confer, consult, contact, exchange, huddle, interact, interview, negotiate, reach out, visit

Strong matches

canvass, chew, collogue, commune, confabulate, confide, deliberate, dialogue, groupthink, interface, network, palaver, parley, reason, relate, touch, vent

Weak matches

be in contact, carry on conversation, engage in conversation, go into a huddle, have a meet, hold discussion, join in conversation, keep in touch, thrash out, touch base

Strongest matches

pitch, speak

Strong matches

accost, discourse, harangue, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, sermonize, spiel, spout, stump, sway

Weak matches

deliver a speech, give a talk, give speech, hold forth, prelect