Which of the following words best replaces jabbering as it is used in the passage below (paragraph 130)? José walked away from Arnie’s jabbering. He walked away, and realized that there were people like his cousin, the liar, and people like himself, someone he was getting to know. He walked away and in the midmorning heat boosted himself up a telephone pole. He climbed up and saw for himself what his father saw—miles and miles of trees and houses, and a future lost in the layers of yellowish haze.
Answer choices for the above question

A. teasing

B. talking

C. chattering

D. fighting