Spoke: alternatives and connections

To speak to first; to address; to greet.

To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to s…

paralysis of the vocal cords resulting in an inability to speak

One of an ancient sect who rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos.

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.

To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation.

A figure of speech in which the speaker breaks off suddenly, as if unwilling or unable to state what was in his mind; as, "I declare t…

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).

Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.

To render an intransitive verb transitive; as, befall (to fall upon); bespeak (to speak for).

To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way.

To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor.

the ability to speak two languages colloquially

To speak of, or address, with impious irreverence; to revile impiously (anything sacred); as, to blaspheme the Holy Spirit.

To speak in exulting language of another; to glory; to exult.

To speak with burr; to make a hoarse or guttural murmur.