Tale and Truth

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Tale noun - A statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive.

Usage example: told tall tales in an attempt to impress me with her supposedly upper-crust background

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Truth is an antonym for tale in topics: story, made-up story.

Truth noun - Agreement with fact or reality.

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Tale is an antonym for truth.

full	full tale	full truth
original	original tale	original truth
single	single tale	single truth
disturbing	disturbing tale	disturbing truth
Other adjectives: simple, actual, entire, real, sad, little, sordid, dark, personal, final, last, different.

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