Make
Make verb - To cause (a person) to give in to pressure.
Usage example: made him do all the work while everyone else just lounged around
Talk
Talk verb - To give a formal often extended talk on a subject.
How words are described
| sweet | sweet make | sweet talk |
| human | human make | human talk |
| good | good make | good talk |
| nice | nice make | nice talk |
| Other adjectives: long, similar, short, direct, complete, standard, friendly, single, simple, small, big, little, dark, quick, new, worst, last, different, generic. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
-
When the children come back, they have tails — tails that can talk and make sounds.
Source: Manga / Milk Closet - Cue a final flashback in Season 10 with Rachel and Chandler talk and make out at a college party with both Ross and Monica present...ok, that they have to have remembered!
- Mal of Head Trip warns her siblings in the tone and posture of a drill sergeant (even using the words "troops," "soldiers," and "mission") not to talk or make any sound whatsoever while watching the final season of Battlestar Galactica.
Source: Serious Business / Web Comics
Cite this Source
Talk and Make. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/talk
Make & Talk. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/talk>.
Talk or Make. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/make/talk.
Google Ngram Viewer shows how "make" and "talk" have occurred on timeline