talk
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(noun) a act of giving a talk to an audience; "I attended an interesting talk on local history" |
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Related Words: chalk talk, lecture, lecturing |
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(verb) express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense" |
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Synonyms: mouth, speak, utter, verbalize |
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Related Words: babble, bark, bay, begin, blabber, blubber, blubber out, blunder out, blurt, blurt out, cackle, chant, chatter, clack, communicate, deliver, drone, drone on, ejaculate, enthuse, falter, gabble, generalise, generalize, gibber, gulp, hiss, inflect, intercommunicate, intone, jabber, jaw, lip off, maffle, maunder, modulate, mouth off, mumble, murmur, mussitate, mutter, open up, palaver, piffle, prate, prattle, present, rabbit on, rant, rasp, rattle on, rave, read, shoot one's mouth off, shout, sibilate, sing, siss, sizz, slur, snap, snarl, snivel, speak in tongues, speak of, speak up, spout, stammer, stutter, swallow, talk about, talk of, tattle, tittle-tattle, troll, twaddle, whine, whisper, yack, yack away, yap away |
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(verb) reveal information; let the cat out of the bag; "If you don't oblige me, I'll talk!" |
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Related Words: tell |
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(verb) exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; also used metaphorically: "Actions talk louder than words" |
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Synonyms: speak |
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Related Words: carry on, chat up, cheek, communicate, continue, converse, coquet, coquette, dally, discourse, dogmatize, flirt, go on, gossip, intercommunicate, level, mash, monologuize, orate, philander, pontificate, proceed, rap, romance, soliloquize, spiel, talk down, talk turkey |
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(noun) an exchange of ideas via conversation; "let's have more work and less talk around here" |
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Synonyms: talking |
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Related Words: cackle, cant, chatter, conversation, dialog, dialogue, duologue, idle words, jazz, nothingness, pious platitude, shop talk, wind, yack, yak, yakety-yak |
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(noun) (`talk about' is a less formal alternative for `discussion of') discussion; "his poetry contains much talk about love and anger" |
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Related Words: discourse, discussion, treatment |
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(noun) idle gossip or rumor; "there has been talk about you lately" |
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Synonyms: talk of the town |
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Related Words: comment, gossip, scuttlebutt |
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(verb) deliver a lecture or talk; "She will talk at Rutgers next week"; "Did you ever lecture at Harvard?" |
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Synonyms: lecture |
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Related Words: instruct, learn, preach, prophesy, teach |
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(verb) divulge information or secrets; spill the beans; "Be careful--his secretary talks" |
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Synonyms: babble, babble out, blab, blab out, peach, sing, tattle |
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Related Words: break, bring out, declare, disclose, discover, divulge, expose, give away, impart, let on, let out, reveal |
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(verb) use language: "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect" |
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Synonyms: speak |
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Related Words: communicate, intercommunicate, run on, slang, smatter |
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(noun) a speech that is open to the public; "he attended a lecture on telecommunications" |
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Synonyms: lecture, public lecture |
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Related Words: address, speech |
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