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oral
adj
    1. Spoken; not written.
      Thesaurus: verbal, vocal, voiced, lingual, phonic, phonetic, spoken, articulate; Antonym: written.
    2. Relating to or used in the mouth.
    3. Said of a medicine or drug, etc: taken in through the mouth.
      Example: oral contraceptive
    4. psychol.
      Relating to a supposed stage of infant development, when satisfaction is obtained by sucking.
noun
    1. A spoken test or examination.
Derivative: orally
adverb
    Through speech rather than writing
      Thesaurus: verbally, literally, by word of mouth.
Etymology: 17c: from Latin oralis, from os, oris mouth.

Info:
    A word often confused with this one is aural.


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