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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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