Role and Talk

Role

Role noun - The action for which a person or thing is specially fitted or used or for which a thing exists.

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Talk and role are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Talk" instead a noun "Role".

Talk noun - A usually formal discourse delivered to an audience.

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Role and talk are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Role" instead a noun "Talk".

Nearby Words: talking, talkative, talker, talkie

good	good role	good talk
similar	similar role	similar talk
usual	usual role	usual talk
brief	brief role	brief talk
Other adjectives: direct, future, single, small, big, serious, little, important, new, heroic, final, last, different.

At least three other Community examples: Abed and Troy swap multiple times during a role-playing pep-talk, Britta role-playing "Star-Burns" to help the group "deal with his death", and an entire episode is built off of a variant of this trope, with Abed and Annie in the Dreamatorium.

Source: Comic Role Play
Part of the reason Taani's prejudiced against Suri as a marriage partner is Hype Backlash against the way her father used to talk Suri up and hold him up as a role model.

Source: Bollywood / Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
Iron Bull in Dragon Age: Inquisition will talk about it a lot, however; as one of the Ben-Hassrath, part of their religious caste, explaining the Qun to outsiders is part of his assigned role.

Source: Blue And Orange Morality / Video Games

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