This week’s theme
Words to describe people

This week’s words
truculent
unctuous
irresolute
veracious
doughty

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(vuh-RAY-shuhs)

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.

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