verbal

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• have: You will have first class verbal and written communication skills and the ability to manage and develop multiple accounts.

Modifies a noun

• abuse: The whole strand is little more than an excuse for Gordon Ramsay to hurl verbal abuse at people for no good reason.
• fluency: High levels of folate were significantly linked to verbal fluency.
• reasoning: The tests available are: Verbal reasoning Numerical reasoning Abstract reasoning These are timed tests, each lasting 20 minutes.
• descriptors: There are currently two schemes in the UK which provide definitions of verbal descriptors of the nutrient content of foods.
• dexterity: And he was laughing at my verbal dexterity, saying: " You've got to watch out with this man!
• warning: I nearly had to give her a verbal warning for coming to work dressed in an England shirt.

Modifying Another Word

• purely: My question, I think centers around whether Evans thinks that a purely verbal proclamation is enough?
• merely: Their ' knowledge ' is merely verbal, and Sprigge suggests that real knowledge would involve actively participating in the appropriate emotions.
• essentially: For the moment, the confrontation within the revolutionary process with these conservative bureaucratic governmental sectors is essentially verbal.
• only: Four months later, the participant needed only verbal assistance to execute the task.
• just: This is just verbal camouflage behind which private shareholders are still dipping their ever-larger ladles into an increasing stream of tax revenues.
• not: So, it's not verbal, but it is intelligent and demanding in ways which will appeal to even the most stick-in-the-mud adventurer.

Used with adjective complement

• include: The term language, includes verbal, tonal and body languages, which underpin all cultural learning structures.
• trump: Invitational tournament to before the game by trumping verbal.
• cover: The test is very similar to those used by major employers and covers verbal, numerical and diagrammatic reasoning.
• become: When I moved to secondary school I became even taller, and the abuse became purely verbal.
• have: The best door supervisors have better verbal than physical skills.