What is another word for "talk"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "talk": absurd, absurdity, absurdness, abuse, abusive, accost, address, allocution, alloquy, alogy, aloud, anticlimax, apostrophe, apostrophize, appeal, aside, audience, ball, ban, bark, bathos, big, blunder, bluster, boutade, bull, bully, button, call, clinch, commination, comminatory, contradictory, curse, defiance, defiant, defy, delusion, denunciation, dialogism.