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| embellishment |
a fictitious or unneeded detail added to enhance a story or the like. [1/3 definitions] |
| entresol |
a low story of a building that is just above the street floor; mezzanine. |
| exclusive |
a news item or story that only one news organization has obtained. [1/5 definitions] |
| exemplum |
a short anecdotal story that supports a particular point in an argument or illustrates a moral truth. [1/2 definitions] |
| fable |
a fictitious story based on legend or myth. [1/4 definitions] |
| fairy tale |
a fictitious, sometimes incredible, imaginative story, often involving giants, ogres, elves, or other magical creatures and characters. [1/2 definitions] |
| folk tale |
a story of anonymous authorship, passed on orally by the common people of a region or country, and often incorporating the myths and legends of that people, or including a moral. |
| good guy |
(informal) the leading, and morally decent, character of a fictional story. [1/4 definitions] |
| Haggadah |
a book read at the Passover Seder that contains the story of Exodus and the ritual of the Seder. [1/2 definitions] |
| hero |
the primary male character of a play, poem, story, or novel. [1/3 definitions] |
| heroine |
the primary female character in a play, poem, story, or novel. [1/2 definitions] |
| illustrate |
to provide pictures or drawings for (a book, story, or other work). [1/3 definitions] |
| indite |
to put (a speech, story, or the like) into words or writing. |
| invention |
something imagined or fabricated, such as a story or a falsehood. [1/5 definitions] |
| joke |
a short fictional story told to provoke laughter, esp. in reaction to the ending. [1/7 definitions] |
| lead1 |
a brief summary that begins a news story. [1/20 definitions] |
| legend |
a story that cannot be verified but has importance among the people of a culture and has been handed down from earlier generations, or a collection of such stories, esp. as they relate to a specific event or persons of the past. [1/4 definitions] |
| life history |
the story of someone's life or the history of a group. [1/3 definitions] |
| locale |
the scene or setting, as of a story, novel, play, or film. [1/2 definitions] |
| make up |
to invent (a story, excuse, or the like) using one's mind. [1/7 definitions] |
| mime |
the art or practice of telling a story or acting out a dramatic or comical scene by means of hand and body movements rather than speaking; pantomime. [1/6 definitions] |
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