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Cassandra, Nostradamus; authority, guru, mastermind, mentor,
wizard: He insists on consulting his oracle before making any
final decision. 2 prophecy, augury, prediction, divination,
advice, prognostication, answer, message, divine utterance:
According to the oracle, the travellers would survive the perils
of the journey.
oral adj. spoken, said, verbal, uttered, voiced, vocal, vocalized,
enunciated, pronounced, articulated, word-of-mouth, viva voce:
Tomorrow James must make an oral presentation of his plan to the
entire staff.
oration n. speech, declaration, address, lecture, recitation,
discourse, monologue, declamation; valedictory, eulogy, homily,
panegyric; Colloq spiel: Bentley delivered a long oration on
the future of the economy.
oratory n. public speaking, speech-making, eloquence, rhetoric, way
with words, command of the language, fluency, glibness,
grandiloquence, magniloquence, declamation; elocution, diction,
enunciation, articulation, address; Colloq gift of the gab: The
crowds who thronged to hear Churchill's oratory were seldom
disappointed.
orb n. sphere, ball, globe: The golden orb of the sun sank into
the sea.
orbit n. 1 circuit, course, path, track, revolution, circle, round,
cycle: The earth's orbit round the sun is elliptical.
--v. 2 revolve, go round, circle, encircle, turn: The earth
orbits the sun in a year. Electrons orbit the nucleus of an
atom.
ordeal n. trial, test, tribulation(s), hardship, affliction,
trouble(s), suffering, distress, anguish, nightmare, misery,
grief, misfortune, adversity, tragedy, disaster: She never
fully recovered from her ordeal at the hands of the kidnappers.
order n. 1 organization, arrangement, grouping, disposition, form,
structure, categorization, systematization or systemization,
classification, codification, disposal, layout, array, sequence,
Colloq set-up: The order of the library is of crucial