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palaversnounpl. of palaver an exchange of views for the purpose of exploring a subject or deciding an issueseemingly endless palaver between the negotiating parties argumentations, arguments, argy-bargies(chiefly British), back-and-forths, colloquies, confabs, confabulations, conferences, consultations, consults, councils, counsel, debates, deliberations, dialogues(also dialogs), discussions, give-and-takes, parleys, talks bull sessions, chat rooms, forums(also fora), meetings, powwows, roundtables(or less commonly round tables), seminars, skull sessions(also skull practices), symposia(or symposiums), talkathonschats, conversations, raps, wordsdiscourses, disquisitionsconsultancies, negotiations, pourparlers to engage in casual or rambling conversationmothers palavering and drinking coffee while watching their children play babbles, blabs, cackles, chaffers(British), chats, chatters, chins(slang), converses, gabbles, gabs, gases(or gasses), jabbers, jaws, kibitzes(also kibbitzes), natters, patters, prates, prattles, raps, rattles, runs on, schmoozes(or shmoozes), talks, twitters, visits gossips, tattlesdescants, discusses, expatiatesyaks(also yacks), yammers, yaps blows smoke, chews the fat(also chews the rag), shoots the breeze, talks a blue streak to get (someone) to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flatteryI let the salesclerk at the electronics store palaver me into a service contract that I didn't need blandishes, blarneys, cajoles, coaxes, soft-soaps, sweet-talks, wheedles adulates, flatters, overpraisesbutters up, charms, massages, woosbegs, beseeches, importunes, urgesbeguiles, cozens, finagles, juggles, wangles, wilesentices, lures, seduces, tempts bugs, harasses, nags, pesters, teasesbrowbeats, bulldozes, bullies, cows, intimidatescoerces, compels, constrains, demands, forces, makes, obliges, requires |