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Noun
1

a report of a discourse in which deictic terms are modified appropriately (e.g., "he said `I am a fool'" would be modified to "he said he is a fool")

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Antonyms
direct quotation
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
report
Rhyming Words
rse arse erse orse morse terse barse carse norse torse birse zorse gorse perse corse farse marse worse sarse parse
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