What is another word for "speaking"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "speaking": about, abroad, abuse, adumbrate, adumbration, against, alienate, alienation, all, allegorical, allegorize, allegory, allude, allusion, allusive, always, anagoge, anagogical, analogy, anathema, and, animosity, anybody, apologue, application, apply, arms, aspersion, association, average, bad, ban, bark, bear, besetting, better, billingsgate, bite, bitterness, broad.