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Speech Verbs and Dialogue tags

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Implore – plead in earnest

Inform – relate new information

Insist – demand forcefully

Instruct – guide someone

Jabber – speak rapidly and incomprehensibly 

Joke – to speak humorously

Lament – to signal some discomfort

Laugh – speaking while laughing

Lie – to say something untrue

Lilt – to speak with a fluctuating pitch

Moan – complain in annoying tones

Mouth – form words silently

Mumble – speak lowly/indistinctly

Murmur – as above

Mutter – speak lowly/indistinctly as if to oneself

Nag – complain continuously and annoyingly

Note – point out something

Object – to express disaccord

Observe – point out something based on visual evidence

Offer – present something to someone

Order – command/dictate

Plead – to make an emotional appeal

Point out – to emphasize a detail

Preach – talk highhandedly/condescendingly/piously

Proclaim – officially announce

Proffer – propose/offer

Purr – talk sensually/like a content cat

Question – to ask

Rage – to speak very angrily

Reassured – to confirm

Repeat – say again

Reply – respond to something

Respond – reply to something

Retort – respond wittily/standoffishly 

Reveal – relate unknown information

Roar – bellow like a large animal

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