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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	speech, address to group
Synonyms:	declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, recitation, sermon, spiel*, allocution, chalk talk, expatiation, peroration, prelection, screed
Antonyms:	listening

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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	produce words; inform
Synonyms:	articulate, babble, broach, chant, chat, chatter, comment on, communicate, confess, converse, describe, divulge, drawl, drone, express, flap one's tongue, gab, gabble, give voice to, gossip, influence, intone, notify, palaver, parley, patter, persuade, prate, prattle, pronounce, reveal, rhapsodize, run on, say, sing, soliloquize, speak, spill the beans, spout, squeak, squeal, talk one's leg off, tell, tell all, use, utter, ventriloquize, verbalize, voice, yak*
Antonyms:	listen

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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	gossip
Synonyms:	allusion, badinage, banter, blather, bombast, bunk, buzz, cant, chat, chatter, chitchat, conversation, cry, gab, grapevine, hearsay, hint, hot air, innuendo, insinuation, jaw, lip, noise, nonsense, palaver, persiflage, prose, racket, raillery, report, rot, rubbish, rumble, rumor, scuttlebutt, small talk, tête-è-tête, trash, yarn, idle talk, jive

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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	discuss with another
Synonyms:	argue, canvass, chew, commune, confer, confide, consult, contact, deliberate, dialogue, exchange, huddle, interact, interview, negotiate, network, palaver, parley, reason, relate, touch, touch base, vent, visit, be in contact, carry on conversation, collogue, confabulate, engage in conversation, go into a huddle, groupthink, have a meet, hold discussion, interface, join in conversation, keep in touch, reach out, thrash out
Antonyms:	refrain, refuse

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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	discussion
Synonyms:	argument, colloquy, conclave, conference, consultation, conversation, deliberation, dialogue, encounter, huddle, interview, meeting, negotiation, palaver, parlance, parley, powwow, seminar, spiel*, symposium, ventilation, visit, confabulation, earful, eyeball-to-eyeball, interlocution, straight talk
Antonyms:	silence

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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	address group
Synonyms:	accost, discourse, harangue, induce, influence, lecture, orate, persuade, pitch, speak, spiel, spout, stump, sway, deliver a speech, give a talk, give speech, hold forth, prelect, sermonize
Antonyms:	listen

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Main Entry:	talk
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	communication with language
Synonyms:	argot, chatter, dialect, discourse, jargon, lingo, locution, parlance, patois, slang, speaking, speech, utterance, words, verbalization, vocalization
Antonyms:	silence

Main Entry:	behavior
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	manner of conducting oneself
Synonyms:	act, action, address, air, attitude, bag*, bearing, carriage, code, comportment, conduct, convention, course, dealings, decency, decorum, deed, delivery, demeanor, deportment, ethics, etiquette, expression, form, front, guise, habits, management, mien, mode, morals, nature, observance, performance, practice, presence, propriety, ritual, role, routine, savoir-faire, seemliness, social graces, speech, style, tact, talk, taste, tenue, tone, way, way of life, ways, what's done

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Main Entry:	bravado
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	boastfulness
Synonyms:	blowing, bluff, bluster, boasting, bombast, bullying, guts, hot air, pomposity, pretension, raging, railing, rant, swelling, talk, braggadocio, bragging, crowing, fancy talk, fanfaronade, fuming, gasconade, grandiosity, selfglorification, storming, swaggering, tall talk
Antonyms:	cowardice, fear, modesty, restraint, fearfulness

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Main Entry:	colloquy
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	conversation, debate
Synonyms:	chat, chitchat, conference, converse, dialogue, discourse, discussion, flap, huddle, palaver, parley, powwow, rap, seminar, talk, buzz session, chinfest, clambake, colloquium, confab, confabulation, gab fest, gam, groupthink, rap session, talkfest

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Main Entry:	contact
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	communicate with
Synonyms:	approach, buzz, call, connect, get, interact, network, reach, relate, talk, telephone, touch base*, visit, be in touch with, check with, get ahold of, get in touch with, interface, phone, reach out, speak to, write to
Antonyms:	avoid

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Main Entry:	conversation
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dialogue, discourse
Synonyms:	chat, colloquy, comment, communication, communion, conference, consultation, converse, debate, discussion, exchange, expression, gab, gossip, hearing, intercourse, observation, palaver, parley, powwow, questioning, remark, repartee, speech, talk, ventilation, visit, yak, confab, confabulation, jive, pillow talk, talkfest, tète-à-tète
Antonyms:	quiet, silence, quietude

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Main Entry:	discourse
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	dialogue; dissertation
Synonyms:	address, article, chat, communication, conversation, converse, descant, discussion, disquisition, essay, homily, huddle, lecture, memoir, monograph, monologue, oration, paper, rhetoric, sermon, speaking, speech, talk, thesis, treatise, utterance, gabfest, tractate, verbalization
Antonyms:	quiet, silence

Main Entry:	discourse
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	discuss, speak about
Synonyms:	argue, chew*, comment, confer, converse, debate, declaim, descant, develop, dispute, elaborate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, explain, expound, harangue, lecture, modulate, orate, perorate, remark, talk, treat, voice, commentate, confab, dilate upon, dissert, dissertate, give a meeting, hold forth, sermonize
Antonyms:	be quiet

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Main Entry:	gab
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	conversation
Synonyms:	blab, blather, chat, chitchat, gossip, loquacity, palaver, prattle, small talk, tête-à-tête, talk, yak, idle talk, tongue-wagging, yakkety-yak
Antonyms:	silence

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Main Entry:	gossip
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	talk about others; spread rumors
Synonyms:	babble, bad-mouth, bend one's ear, blab, blather, blether, chat, chatter, cut to pieces, cut up, dish, hint, imply, insinuate, intimate, jaw, prate, prattle, rattle on, repeat, report, rumor, schmoose, spill the beans, spread*, suggest, talk, talk idly, tattle, tell secrets, tell tales, wiggle-waggle

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Main Entry:	hearsay
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	unsubstantiated information
Synonyms:	comment, cry, gossip, grapevine, leak, noise, report, rumble, rumor, scandal, scuttlebutt, talk, word of mouth, clothesline, mere talk, talk of the town
Antonyms:	evidence, proof, reality, testimony, truth

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Main Entry:	idiom
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	manner of speaking, turn of phrase
Synonyms:	argot, colloquialism, dialect, expression, idiosyncrasy, jargon, language, lingo*, locution, parlance, patois, phrase, style, talk, tongue, usage, vernacular, word, localism, provincialism, set phrase, street talk, vernacularism
Antonyms:	standard

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Main Entry:	interview
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	questioning and evaluation
Synonyms:	account, audience, call, call back, cattle call, communication, conference, consultation, conversation, dialogue, examination, hearing, meeting, oral, parley, press conference, record, statement, talk

Main Entry:	interview
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	ask questions and evaluate
Synonyms:	consult, converse, examine, interrogate, question, quiz, talk, get for the record, get opinion, give oral examination, hold inquiry, sound out, talk to