What is another word for "ball"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "ball": accost, address, advance, aforementioned, aforesaid, allocution, alloquy, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, anteposition, anterior, anteriority, apostrophe, apostrophize, appeal, aside, audience, before, button, call, come, coming, dance, dialogism, dialogue, ear, fashion, first, former, front, get, halloo, have, head, hey, hist, importance, influence, interpellation.