This week’s theme
Misc. words

This week’s words
flagrant
mendacious
venal
feckless
veritable

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Words to describe people

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PRONUNCIATION:

(VER-i-tuh-buhl)

MEANING:

adjective: True; real (typically used as an intensifier for a metaphor).

ETYMOLOGY:

From Old French verai (true), from Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1474.

USAGE:

“Given that Albany is the home of the venal, the feckless, and the indifferent -- a veritable temple of dysfunction -- it’s difficult to imagine, given their record, that it has the capacity to do anything right.”
Leonard Quart; Transit Woes Result of Government Failure; The Berkshire Eagle (Pittsfield, Massachusetts); Apr 8, 2010.

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

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