This week’s theme
Words that aren’t what they appear to be

This week’s words
corroboree
monomachy
verisimilar
polystyle
doctor's mandate

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(ver-uh-SIM-uh-luhr)

MEANING:

adjective: Having the appearance of truth or reality.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin verum (truth) + similis (like). Earliest documented use: 1681. The noun form is verisimilitude. See also Potemkin village.

USAGE:

“And will we, in the age of the image, become too easily accustomed to verisimilar rather than true things, preferring appearance to reality?”
Christine Rosen; The Dangers of Visual Culture; The Futurist (Washington, DC); Mar/Apr 2007.

See more usage examples of verisimilar in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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