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Apr 28, 2016
This week’s themeWords to describe people This week’s words truculent unctuous irresolute veracious doughty A.Word.A.Day
with Anu Gargveracious
PRONUNCIATION:
MEANING:
adjective: Truthful; honest; accurate.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1677.
USAGE:
“Olivia had instinctively perceived that the girl was neither exaggerating
nor embellishing, and she knew she had listened to a veracious witness.” Barbara Taylor Bradford; A Woman of Substance; Doubleday; 1979. See more usage examples of veracious in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone
else's story. -Terry Pratchett, novelist (28 Apr 1948-2015)
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