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verify
1、 To prove to be true or correct.
2、 To check or test the accuracy of.
🌱It is the bank teller's job to verify the signature on a check. 🌳During talks between the United States and the former Soviet Union on nuclear weapons reduction, one big problem was how to verify that weapons had been eliminated. Since neither side wanted the other to know its secrets, verification of the facts became a difficult issue. Because of the distrust on both sides, many doubted that the real numbers would ever be verifiable. aver To state positively as true; declare.
🌱The defendant averred that she was nowhere near the scene of the crime on the night in question. 🌳Since aver contains the "truth" root, it basically means "confirm as true." You may aver anything that you're sure of. In legal situations, aver means to state positively as a fact; thus, Perry Mason's clients aver that they are innocent, while the district attorney avers the opposite. If you make such a statement while under oath, and it turns out that you lied, you may have committed the crime of perjury. verisimilitude 1、 The appearance of being true or probable.
2、 The depiction of realism in art or literature.
🌱By the beginning of the 20th century, the leading European painters were losing interest in verisimilitude and beginning to experiment with abstraction. 🌳From its roots, verisimilitude means basically "similarity to the truth." Most fiction writers and filmmakers aim at some kind of verisimilitude to give their stories an air of reality. They need not show something actually true, or even very common, but simply something believable. A mass of good details in a play, novel, painting, or film may add verisimilitude. A spy novel without some verisimilitude won't interest many readers, but a fantastical novel may not even attempt to seem true to life. veracity 1、 Truth or accuracy.
2、 The quality of being truthful or honest.
🌱We haven't been able to check the veracity of most of his story, but we know he wasn't at the motel that night. 🌳People often claim that a frog placed in cold water that then is gradually heated will let itself be boiled to death, but the story actually lacks veracity. We often hear that the Eskimo （Inuit） peoples have dozens of words for "snow," but the veracity of the statement is doubtful, since Eskimo languages seem to have no more snow words than English （with flake, blizzard, powder, drift, freezing rain, etc.）. In 2009 millions accepted the veracity of the claim that, against all the evidence, the elected president wasn't a native-born American. Not all the "facts" we accept without thinking are harmless.
2、 To check or test the accuracy of.
🌱It is the bank teller's job to verify the signature on a check. 🌳During talks between the United States and the former Soviet Union on nuclear weapons reduction, one big problem was how to verify that weapons had been eliminated. Since neither side wanted the other to know its secrets, verification of the facts became a difficult issue. Because of the distrust on both sides, many doubted that the real numbers would ever be verifiable. aver To state positively as true; declare.
🌱The defendant averred that she was nowhere near the scene of the crime on the night in question. 🌳Since aver contains the "truth" root, it basically means "confirm as true." You may aver anything that you're sure of. In legal situations, aver means to state positively as a fact; thus, Perry Mason's clients aver that they are innocent, while the district attorney avers the opposite. If you make such a statement while under oath, and it turns out that you lied, you may have committed the crime of perjury. verisimilitude 1、 The appearance of being true or probable.
2、 The depiction of realism in art or literature.
🌱By the beginning of the 20th century, the leading European painters were losing interest in verisimilitude and beginning to experiment with abstraction. 🌳From its roots, verisimilitude means basically "similarity to the truth." Most fiction writers and filmmakers aim at some kind of verisimilitude to give their stories an air of reality. They need not show something actually true, or even very common, but simply something believable. A mass of good details in a play, novel, painting, or film may add verisimilitude. A spy novel without some verisimilitude won't interest many readers, but a fantastical novel may not even attempt to seem true to life. veracity 1、 Truth or accuracy.
2、 The quality of being truthful or honest.
🌱We haven't been able to check the veracity of most of his story, but we know he wasn't at the motel that night. 🌳People often claim that a frog placed in cold water that then is gradually heated will let itself be boiled to death, but the story actually lacks veracity. We often hear that the Eskimo （Inuit） peoples have dozens of words for "snow," but the veracity of the statement is doubtful, since Eskimo languages seem to have no more snow words than English （with flake, blizzard, powder, drift, freezing rain, etc.）. In 2009 millions accepted the veracity of the claim that, against all the evidence, the elected president wasn't a native-born American. Not all the "facts" we accept without thinking are harmless.
VER comes from the Latin word for "truth." A verdict in a trial is "the truth spoken" (See DICT.)But a just verdict may depend on the veracity, or "truthfulness," of the witnesses.🌸