FABLE Synonyms

• a will disposing of real property

• (law) a gift of real property by will

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• arrange by systematic planning and united effort

• give by will, especially real property

• make believe with the intent to deceive

• make a pretence of

• come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or principle) after a mental effort

• concoct something artificial or untrue

• an allegorical play popular in the 15th and 16th centuries; characters personified virtues and vices

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a visible symbol representing an abstract idea

• an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• writing in a fictional form

• the act of making something (a product) from raw materials

• the act of constructing something (as a piece of machinery)

• the deliberate act of deviating from the truth

• a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

• a deliberately false or improbable account

• a short moral story (often with animal characters)

• (New Testament) any of the stories told by Jesus to convey his religious message