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1
of or relating to words or language
- the child didn't yet have the verbal skills needed to tell the doctor about the pain he was experiencing
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- lexical,
- linguistic
- (also linguistical),
- rhetorical
- (also rhetoric),
- vocabular,
- wordy
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2
made or carried on through speaking rather than in writing
- a verbal agreement carries less force than a written contract
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“Verbal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/verbal. Accessed 27 Nov. 2021.
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The first known use of verbal was in the 15th century
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