Diary and Tale

Diary

Diary noun - A record of personal experiences, reflections, or ideas kept regularly for private use.

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Tale and diary are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Tale" instead a noun "Diary".

Nearby Word: diarist

Tale noun - A rumor or report of a personal or sensational nature.

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Diary and tale are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Diary" instead a noun "Tale".

old	old diary	old tale
particular	particular diary	particular tale
original	original diary	original tale
true	true diary	true tale
Other adjectives: actual, entire, real, little, famous, personal, ancient, final, fictional, last, written, ongoing.

A book of philosophy or some diary may have survived him, or one of his inner circle may tell his tale and so the story ends on a happy note, but not too happy.

Source: You Cannot Kill an Idea
Lockwood himself is able to later write her whole tale, including other characters' individual recantations to Nelly, down in his diary from memory.

Source: Infallible Narrator
A tale from the SCP Foundation, The Little Lost *blotted* is portrayed as a series of diary entries.

Source: The All-Concealing I

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