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   o·ral

   /ˈôr(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. by word of mouth; spoken rather than written: "they had reached an oral agreement"
   • ▪ relating to the transmission of information or literature by word of mouth rather than in writing: "oral literature"
   • ▪ (of a society) not having reached the stage of literacy.
   • 2. relating to the mouth: "oral hygiene"
   • ▪ done or taken by the mouth: "oral contraceptives"
   • ▪ (of a speech sound) pronounced by the voice resonating in the mouth, as the vowels in English.
   • ▪ (in Freudian theory) relating to or denoting a stage of infantile psychosexual development in which the mouth is the main source of pleasure and the center of experience.

   noun

   • 1. a spoken examination or test: "a French oral"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from late Latin oralis, from Latin os, or- ‘mouth’.

   Scrabble Points: 4

   • O

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   • R

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   • A

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   • L

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