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Main Entry: cautionary tale
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: piece of advice
Synonyms: a few words of wisdom, admonition, advisory, caution light, caveat, deterrent example, enough said, forewarning, hint, lesson, message, moral, omen, portent, red flag*, sign of things to come*, wake-up call*, warning, word to the wise*
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Main Entry: oral
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: spoken
Synonyms: articulate, ejaculatory, lingual, narrated, phonated, phonetic, phonic, recounted, related, said, sonant, sounded, told, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocal, voiced, word-of-mouth
Antonyms: written
Notes: oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written
3.
Main Entry: reputed
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: believed
Synonyms: accounted, alleged, assumed, conjectural, considered, deemed, estimated, gossiped, held, hypothetical, ostensible, putative, reckoned, regarded, reported, rumored, said, seeming, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious, suppositive, suppository, thought
Antonyms: known
4.
Main Entry: sooner or later
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: at an unspecified future time
Synonyms: eventually, in time, one fine day, someday, sometime, sometime or other, somewhen, when all is said and done
5.
Main Entry: spoken
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: by speech
Synonyms: announced, articulate, communicated, expressed, lingual, mentioned, oral, phonetic, phonic, said, sonant, told, traditional, unwritten, uttered, verbal, viva voce, voiced
Antonyms: unspoken, written
6.
Main Entry: verbal
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: spoken
Synonyms: exact, expressed, lingual, literal, oral, rhetorical, said, stated, told, unwritten, verbatim, word-for-word*, word-of-mouth*
Notes: oral applies only to the spoken word but verbal can describe both spoken and written; oral means 'by mouth' or 'by spoken word' and verbal means 'written or spoken word' - so an oral agreement is spoken but a verbal agreement can be spoken or written
7.
Main Entry: vocal
Part of Speech: adjective 1
Definition: spoken
Synonyms: articulate, articulated, choral, expressed, intonated, lyric, modulated, operatic, oral, phonetic, phonic, pronounced, said, singing, sonant, sung, uttered, verbal, viva voce, vocalic, vocalized, voiced, vowel
Antonyms: written
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answered by Atif Mirza 5
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