Vocabulary for Communication Skills

The space we like to have around us when we're communicating with other people.

• comfort zone

• a hula hoop

• Saturn

• gesture

The process of exchanging information between individuals through verbal or written messages.

• writing a paper

• communication

• interrupt

• speaker

a verbal exchange of ideas and opinions

• a fight

• inflection

• conversation

• topic

a movement of the hands or arms used to communicate a message

• paraphrase

• inflection

• listener

• gesture

change in pitch or loudness of the voice

• inflection

• interrupt

• topic

• listener

to break into a conversation while someone else is speaking

• topic

• interrupt

• comfort zone

• committing a crime

a person who is listening to what someone else says

• a giraffe

• a really cool person

• listener

• speaker

to keep talking so no one else has a chance to speak in conversation

• interrupt

• conversation

• singing

• monopolize

to restate what a speaker said in your own words; to show you paid attention to the speaker

• paraphrase

• write a speech

• gesture

• playing chess

a person who is talking to a listener or listeners

• speaker

• listener

• gesture

• the president