Avoid and Speak to

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Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.

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Speak to is an antonym for avoid.

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Avoid is an antonym for speak to in topics: welcome, accompany, communicate with.

In the The Haunted Hathaways episode "Haunted Kids", Taylor and Frankie won't speak to each other, so Ray splits in half to avoid having to give them the same advice twice.

Source: Living Apart
In NCIS, Gibbs and Abby often speak to each other in sign language to avoid other people hearing their conversation.

Source: Hiding Behind the Language Barrier
It turns out Richard was successfully retrieved from the past by a research team who substituted a similar-looking already-dead man in the right armor in his place to avoid changing history, and grizzled project leader Evan Hosgrove is eager to get to speak to his favorite historical monarch.

Source: Literature / Richard III in the 21st Century

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