"Variable" is it a reserved word?

Hi, a third party application generates a table, which contains
a column called: "variable", and the name of this column can not
be changed...
I need to use the column, but when I refer to it, oracle sql developer
put the word "variable" in bold and gives an error while compiling:
...DECLARE
var_xyz table.variable%TYPE
Is there anyway to solve this issue with the column name?
thanks you all,
jo

SQL> l
1 select *
2 from   v$reserved_words
3* order by keyword
KEYWORD           LENGTH
USING                  5
VALIDATE               8
VALIDATION            10
VALUE                  5
VALUES                 6
VARCHAR                7
VARCHAR2               8
VARRAY                 6
...

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