Verbs of Modes and Manners of Expression

• add
• affect
• air
• announce
• annunciate
• assert
• babble
• banter
• beckon
• bicker
• bid
• blab
• blabber
• blather
• blatter
• blither
• blurt
• break
• broach
• bubble
• bullshit
• burble
• call
• chat
• chatter
• chew the fat
• chew the rag
• chime in
• chitchat
• chorus
• clam up
• command
• comment
• confab
• confabulate
• confide
• continue
• converse
• couch
• coze
• declaim
• declare
• deliver
• demand
• deny
• dictate
• echo
• embellish
• evoke
• exaggerate
• excuse
• express
• falter
• fib
• footle
• gab
• go
• greet
• harangue
• harp
• hem and haw
• herald
• hesitate
• indite
• ingeminate
• insist
• interject
• interrupt
• introduce
• invoke
• issue
• iterate
• jabber
• jaw
• jive
• kibitz
• lie
• maintain
• maunder
• mention
• minic
• muster
• narrate
• natter
• note
• observe
• orate
• order
• outspeak
• overstate
• page
• palaver
• parody
• parrot
• pass
• patter
• perorate
• persist
• phrase
• piffle
• pip up
• pontificate
• portray
• prattle
• predict
• present
• prevaricate
• proclaim
• profess
• promise
• prompt
• prophesy
• put it
• quip
• quote
• ramble
• rap
• rattle
• recount
• rede
• reel off
• refer
• regale
• rehash
• reiterate
• relate
• remark
• repeat
• require
• say
• schmooze
• sermonize
• shoot off one’s mouth
• shoot the breeze
• shovel shit
• simper
• sling shit
• slobber
• smatter
• sneer
• soft-pedal
• soliloquize
• sound
• speak
• speak out
• spell out
• spiel
• spit it out
• squib
• state
• stretch
• stumble
• summon
• swear
• talk
• talk down
• tell
• title
• touch on
• trifle
• turn a phrase
• twaddle
• twitter
• utter
• vaticinate
• ventilate
• venture
• verbalize
• vocalize
• voice
• vouchsafe
• vow
• waffle
• wank
• warn
• warrant
• wrangle
• yabber
• yak
• yammer
• yarn