1. Our common friend is the better expression, though Dickens has made famous the corresponding worse usage.
2. Friendship may be mutual; a friend cannot.
3. Separated by mountains and by mutual fear.
What is meant by reciprocal? Which word is a synonym of reciprocal?
Oral, verbal.
1. Miles Standish’s act of sending the Indians a snake-skin filled with powder and ball, was a message, but not a verbal message.
2. If you are to see John, let me send him this oral message: Never say die.
3. The corrections did not affect the truth of the statements, but only the manner: they were verbal corrections.
4. The telegraph operator translates into verbal form the message that he hears in the ticking of his receiver.