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| ad nauseam |
until one is sick of the thing being done, told, or the like. |
| altogether |
including everything; all told. [1/3 definitions] |
| antediluvian |
of the period before the Flood told of in the Bible. [1/4 definitions] |
| autobiography |
the events of a person's life written or told by that person. |
| chronicle |
an account of events, told in the order in which those events took place. [1/2 definitions] |
| confidential |
told or communicated only in privacy; secret. [1/3 definitions] |
| joke |
a short fictional story told to provoke laughter, esp. in reaction to the ending. [1/7 definitions] |
| legendary |
of a person or thing, extraordinary to the degree that stories of this person or thing, truthful or fictitious, come to be told and passed on through time; of, based on, or like a legend. |
| parable |
a brief story told as a moral or religious lesson, esp. one that uses allegory or symbolism. |
| white lie |
a small or harmless lie, often told to spare someone's feelings; well-intentioned fib. |
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