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To utter words; esp., to converse familiarly; to speak, as in familiar discourse, when two or more persons interchange thoughts.

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Babble 84% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Babble 84% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Blab 84% connected

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

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Blab 84% connected

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

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Peach 84% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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Peach 84% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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Sing 84% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Sing 84% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Spill 84% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Spill 84% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Tattle 84% connected

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

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Tattle 84% connected

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

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Verbalize 84% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Verbalize 84% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Address 76% connected

To aim; to direct.

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Break 76% connected

To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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Comment 76% connected

To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, to write notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate his meaning, or to expla…

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Communicate 76% connected

To share in common; to participate in.

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Conversation 76% connected

General course of conduct; behavior.

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Disclose 76% connected

To unclose; to open; -- applied esp. to eggs in the sense of to hatch.

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Discourse 76% connected

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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Discover 76% connected

To uncover.

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Discussion 76% connected

The act or process of discussing by breaking up, or dispersing, as a tumor, or the like.

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Divulge 76% connected

To make public; to several or communicate to the public; to tell (a secret) so that it may become generally known; to disclose; -- said of that which…

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Expose 76% connected

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection.

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Gossip 76% connected

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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Instruct 76% connected

Arranged; furnished; provided.

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Intercommunicate 76% connected

To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.

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Learn 76% connected

To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acqu…

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Lecture 76% connected

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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Lecturing 76% connected

of Lecture

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Reveal 76% connected

To make known (that which has been concealed or kept secret); to unveil; to disclose; to show.

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Speech 76% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Teach 76% connected

To impart the knowledge of; to give intelligence concerning; to impart, as knowledge before unknown, or rules for practice; to inculcate as true or i…

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Tell 76% connected

To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.

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Treatment 76% connected

The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.

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Uncover 76% connected

To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body.

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Unwrap 76% connected

To open or undo, as what is wrapped or folded.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Babble 76% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Bark 76% connected

To strip the bark from; to peel.

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Bay 76% connected

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses.

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Begin 76% connected

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.

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Blab 76% connected

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

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Blabber 76% connected

A tattler; a telltale.

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Blubber 76% connected

A bubble.

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Blunder 76% connected

To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription.

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Blurt 76% connected

To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.

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Bumble 76% connected

The bittern.

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Butterfly 76% connected

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

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Cackle 76% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

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Chant 76% connected

To utter with a melodious voice; to sing.

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Chatter 76% connected

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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Cheek 76% connected

The side of the face below the eye.

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Clack 76% connected

To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.

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Continue 76% connected

To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.

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Converse 76% connected

To keep company; to hold intimate intercourse; to commune; -- followed by with.

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Coquet 76% connected

To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint.

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Coquette 76% connected

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to gratify vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

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Dally 76% connected

To waste time in effeminate or voluptuous pleasures, or in idleness; to fool away time; to delay unnecessarily; to tarry; to trifle.

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Deliver 76% connected

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or…

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Discourse 76% connected

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of…

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Dissertate 76% connected

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse.

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Dogmatize 76% connected

To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

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Drone 76% connected

The male of bees, esp. of the honeybee. It gathers no honey. See Honeybee.

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Ejaculate 76% connected

To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject.

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Enounce 76% connected

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

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Enthuse 76% connected

To make or become enthusiastic.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Falter 76% connected

To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.

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Flirt 76% connected

To throw with a jerk or quick effort; to fling suddenly; as, they flirt water in each other's faces; he flirted a glove, or a handkerchief.

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Gabble 76% connected

To talk fast, or to talk without meaning; to prate; to jabber.

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Generalize 76% connected

To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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Gibber 76% connected

A balky horse.

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Gossip 76% connected

A sponsor; a godfather or a godmother.

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Gulp 76% connected

To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.

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Hiss 76% connected

To make with the mouth a prolonged sound like that of the letter s, by driving the breath between the tongue and the teeth; to make with the mouth a…

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Inflect 76% connected

To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.

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Intone 76% connected

To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

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Jabber 76% connected

To talk rapidly, indistinctly, or unintelligibly; to utter gibberish or nonsense; to chatter.

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Jaw 76% connected

One of the bones, usually bearing teeth, which form the framework of the mouth.

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Level 76% connected

A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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Mash 76% connected

A mesh.

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Maunder 76% connected

To beg.

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Modulate 76% connected

To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.

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Mumble 76% connected

To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicat…

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Murmur 76% connected

A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.

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Mutter 76% connected

To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to gro…

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Palaver 76% connected

Talk; conversation; esp., idle or beguiling talk; talk intended to deceive; flattery.

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Peep 76% connected

To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.

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Philander 76% connected

To make love to women; to play the male flirt.

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piffle 76% connected

Nonsense or trivial talk

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Pontificate 76% connected

The state or dignity of a high priest; specifically, the office of the pope.

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Prate 76% connected

To talk much and to little purpose; to be loquacious; to speak foolishly; to babble.

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Prattle 76% connected

To talk much and idly; to prate; hence, to talk lightly and artlessly, like a child; to utter child's talk.

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Preach 76% connected

To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from a text of Scripture; to d…

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Present 76% connected

Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent.

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Proceed 76% connected

To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Prophesy 76% connected

To foretell; to predict; to prognosticate.

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Rant 76% connected

To rave in violent, high-sounding, or extravagant language, without dignity of thought; to be noisy, boisterous, and bombastic in talk or declamation…

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Rap 76% connected

A lay or skein containing 120 yards of yarn.

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Rasp 76% connected

To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder.

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Rave 76% connected

imp. of Rive.

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Read 76% connected

Rennet. See 3d Reed.

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Romance 76% connected

A species of fictitious writing, originally composed in meter in the Romance dialects, and afterward in prose, such as the tales of the court of Arth…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Shout 76% connected

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.

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Sibilate 76% connected

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

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Sing 76% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Siss 76% connected

To make a hissing sound; as, a flatiron hot enough to siss when touched with a wet finger.

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Slang 76% connected

imp. of Sling. Slung.

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Slur 76% connected

To soil; to sully; to contaminate; to disgrace.

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Smatter 76% connected

To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter.

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Snap 76% connected

To break at once; to break short, as substances that are brittle.

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Snarl 76% connected

To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware) by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.

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Snivel 76% connected

To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.

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Soliloquize 76% connected

To utter a soliloquy; to talk to one's self.

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Spout 76% connected

To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

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Stammer 76% connected

To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter.

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Stutter 76% connected

To hesitate or stumble in uttering words; to speak with spasmodic repetition or pauses; to stammer.

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Swallow 76% connected

Any one of numerous species of passerine birds of the family Hirundinidae, especially one of those species in which the tail is deeply forked. They h…

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Tattle 76% connected

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

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Tittle-tattle 76% connected

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle.

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Tone 76% connected

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Troll 76% connected

A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.

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Twaddle 76% connected

To talk in a weak and silly manner, like one whose faculties are decayed; to prate; to prattle.

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Verbalize 76% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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Vocalize 76% connected

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to.

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Whiff 76% connected

A sudden expulsion of air from the mouth; a quick puff or slight gust, as of air or smoke.

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Whine 76% connected

To utter a plaintive cry, as some animals; to moan with a childish noise; to complain, or to tell of sorrow, distress, or the like, in a plaintive, n…

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Whisper 76% connected

To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibratio…

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Cackle 76% connected

To make a sharp, broken noise or cry, as a hen or goose does.

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Cant 76% connected

A corner; angle; niche.

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Chatter 76% connected

To utter sounds which somewhat resemble language, but are inarticulate and indistinct.

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Dialog 76% connected

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Dialogue 76% connected

A conversation between two or more persons; particularly, a formal conservation in theatrical performances or in scholastic exercises.

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malarkey 76% connected

Nonsense or foolish talk

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Nothingness 76% connected

Nihility; nonexistence.

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Wind 76% connected

To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twin…

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Yak 76% connected

A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered wit…

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Betrayer 74% connected

One who, or that which, betrays.

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Betrayer 74% connected

One who, or that which, betrays.

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Mouth 74% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Mouth 74% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Mouthpiece 74% connected

The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.

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Mouthpiece 74% connected

The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.

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Speak 74% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Speak 74% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Speech 74% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Speech 74% connected

The faculty of uttering articulate sounds or words; the faculty of expressing thoughts by words or articulate sounds; the power of speaking.

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Talker 74% connected

One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

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Talker 74% connected

One who talks; especially, one who is noted for his power of conversing readily or agreeably; a conversationist.

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Utter 74% connected

Outer.

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Utter 74% connected

Outer.

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Babble 92% connected

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

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Blab 92% connected

To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion.

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Lecture 92% connected

The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.

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Mouth 92% connected

The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and tee…

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Peach 92% connected

To accuse of crime; to inform against.

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Sing 92% connected

To utter sounds with musical inflections or melodious modulations of voice, as fancy may dictate, or according to the notes of a song or tune, or of…

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Speak 92% connected

To utter words or articulate sounds, as human beings; to express thoughts by words; as, the organs may be so obstructed that a man may not be able to…

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Spill 92% connected

A bit of wood split off; a splinter.

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Talking 92% connected

of Talk

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Tattle 92% connected

To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.

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Utter 92% connected

Outer.

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Verbalize 92% connected

To convert into a verb; to verbify.

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