If you are an English learner writing everyday, you must be sick of using ‘said’ over and over again in your work. Besides, when you read a dialogue in a piece of story, you could see a lot of new words rather than ‘said’ which shows more details about the speakers’ tones and altitudes.

That’s why I collected this vocabulary list.

At the beginning, the words were collected from different online word lists that describe agreement, request, annoy or pleasure, loud or quiet, etc. Then, I realized it is too long (over 50 pages). So, I seperated them into two parts. One for the words other than ‘said’ in fictions or conversation scripts, another one for formal writing materials like news papers and magazines.

This list is formal words instead of ‘said’. Honestly, it’s part 2. I am trying to add more words which used to describe voices in performance in part 1. So, you will see part 1 later in this blog(Words to Use instead of ‘Said’: Voices and Tones).

Here we go!