dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/ver_MW.json

{
  "Verulam":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "\u2014 see Francis bacon":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025554",
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ]
  },
  "Verulamian":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or like that of Francis Bacon":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Baron Verulam (title of Francis Bacon \u20201626 English philosopher and author) + English -an":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccver\u0259\u02c8l\u0101m\u0113\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-215125",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "Verus":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      "Lucius Aurelius a.d. 130\u2013169 originally Lucius Ceionius Commodus Roman emperor (161\u2013169)":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vir-\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-205010",
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
    ]
  },
  "veracious":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dishonest",
      "fibbing",
      "lying",
      "mendacious",
      "prevaricating",
      "untruthful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by truth : accurate":[],
      ": truthful , honest":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "he has a reputation for being veracious , so people generally take his word for things",
      "most readers have accepted the book as a veracious account of Samuel Johnson's table talk",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On the other hand, could NZBA recommend inviting climate scientists to their boards to understand better the veracious nature of the risks faced and the appropriate mitigation paths to be considered",
      "As for elephant riding, the ACEWG notes that while veracious studies have not been conducted on elephants specifically, it is known that horses, dogs, and donkeys have a weight-carrying capacity of about 20-to-25 percent of their body weight. \u2014 Ashlea Halpern, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 Oct. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin v\u0113r\u0101c-, v\u0113r\u0101x \"truthful\" + -ious \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "honest",
      "truthful"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031326",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veraciousness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "dishonest",
      "fibbing",
      "lying",
      "mendacious",
      "prevaricating",
      "untruthful"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": marked by truth : accurate":[],
      ": truthful , honest":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "he has a reputation for being veracious , so people generally take his word for things",
      "most readers have accepted the book as a veracious account of Samuel Johnson's table talk",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On the other hand, could NZBA recommend inviting climate scientists to their boards to understand better the veracious nature of the risks faced and the appropriate mitigation paths to be considered",
      "As for elephant riding, the ACEWG notes that while veracious studies have not been conducted on elephants specifically, it is known that horses, dogs, and donkeys have a weight-carrying capacity of about 20-to-25 percent of their body weight. \u2014 Ashlea Halpern, Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler , 18 Oct. 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1677, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin v\u0113r\u0101c-, v\u0113r\u0101x \"truthful\" + -ious \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "honest",
      "truthful"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-100630",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veracity":{
    "antonyms":[
      "deceit",
      "deceitfulness",
      "dishonesty",
      "lying",
      "mendaciousness",
      "mendacity",
      "untruthfulness"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": conformity with truth or fact : accuracy":[],
      ": devotion to the truth : truthfulness":[],
      ": power of conveying or perceiving truth":[],
      ": something true":[
        "makes lies sound like veracities"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "What gives the book its integrity are the simplicity and veracity of these recipes and the small touches\u2014bits of history, discovery and personal reflection. \u2014 Harvey Steiman , Wine Spectator , 31 Mar. 1998",
      "The trial began with a flurry of motions and questions challenging the judge's authority and veracity . The defendants earlier had called the judge's authority into question when jurors were selected two weeks ago. \u2014 Chris Bird , San Antonio Express-News , 23 Jan. 1996",
      "\u2026 some documentary photographers supported the photographer's right to find essential rather than literal truths in any situation, while others \u2026 insisted on absolute veracity , maintaining that for images to be true to both medium and event, situations should be found, not reenacted. \u2014 Naomi Rosenblum , A World History of Photography , 1989",
      "We questioned the veracity of his statements.",
      "The jury did not doubt the veracity of the witness.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Lesko has previously cast doubt on Hutchinson's veracity . \u2014 Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic , 23 June 2022",
      "The unique challenges resulting from the big data characteristics of volume, velocity and veracity require a new approach to data analysis. \u2014 Ken Knapton, Forbes , 16 June 2022",
      "Once more, widescreen black-and-white lends the action welcome veracity (more in spirit than in fact), but the director\u2019s unending capacity to surprise will rivet viewers. \u2014 David Mermelstein, WSJ , 17 May 2022",
      "Oz long faced criticism over the veracity of some medical claims on his show, which aired its last episode early this year. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "At press time, Billboard has not independently verified the veracity of the video footage. \u2014 Gil Kaufman, Billboard , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Ultimately, whether the Lions address the quarterback position this spring will depend both on the veracity of that belief and their evaluation of prospects like Willis, Desmond Ridder and Kenny Pickett. \u2014 Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "Decades of research has shown inconsistencies could have explanations other than a person's veracity . \u2014 Ashley Luthern, Journal Sentinel , 6 June 2022",
      "Much of this might have been formulaic in less artful hands, but Kore-eda has an unfaltering lightness of touch, a way of injecting emotional veracity and spontaneity into every moment. \u2014 David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter , 26 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1614, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin v\u0113r\u0101cit\u0101t-, v\u0113r\u0101cit\u0101s , from Latin v\u0113r\u0101c-, v\u0113r\u0101x \"truthful\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-\u02c8ra-s\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "honesty",
      "integrity",
      "probity",
      "truthfulness",
      "verity"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170715",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratr-":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": veratrine : veratric acid":[
        "veratr ize",
        "veratro yl"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Veratrum":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-115603",
    "type":[
      "combining form"
    ]
  },
  "veratraldehyde":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a crystalline compound (CH 3 O) 2 C 6 H 3 CHO made usually by methylating vanillin; 3,4-dimethoxy-benzaldehyde":[],
      ": a crystalline compound isomeric with veratraldehyde; 2,3-dimethoxy-benzaldehyde":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "veratr- + aldehyde":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccver\u0259\u2027\u02c8trald\u0259\u02cch\u012bd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110955",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratramine":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a crystalline alkaloid C 27 H 39 NO 2 obtained from hellebore and especially American hellebore":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "veratr- + amine":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02c8tra\u02ccm\u0113n",
      "-m\u0259\u0307n",
      "v\u0259\u0307\u02c8ra\u2027tr\u0259m\u0259\u0307n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-120437",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratrate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a salt or ester of veratric acid":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary veratr- + -ate":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver\u0259\u2027\u02cctr\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-124138",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratroyl":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the univalent radical (CH 3 O) 2 C 6 H 3 CO\u2212 of veratric acid":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary veratr- + -yl":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259\u0307\u02c8ra\u2027tr\u0259\u02ccwil"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114925",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratrum":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": hellebore sense 2":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1577, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin, a plant genus, going back to Latin v\u0113r\u0101trum \"any of various poisonous or medicinal plants, probably of the genera Helleborus and Veratrum ,\" probably of pre-Latin origin":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-tr\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-074158",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratryl":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the univalent radical (CH 3 O) 2 C 6 H 3 CH 2 \u2212 of the alcohol corresponding to veratraldehyde and veratric acid; 3,4-dimethoxy-benzyl":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "veratr- + -yl":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0113l",
      "\u02c8ver\u0259\u2027\u02cctril"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-104914",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veratrylidene":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the bivalent radical (CH 3 O) 2 C 6 H 3 CH= derived from veratraldehyde by removal of the aldehydic oxygen":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "veratryl + -idene":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061113",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verb":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a word that characteristically is the grammatical center of a predicate and expresses an act, occurrence, or mode of being, that in various languages is inflected for agreement with the subject, for tense, for voice, for mood, or for aspect, and that typically has rather full descriptive meaning and characterizing quality but is sometimes nearly devoid of these especially when used as an auxiliary or linking verb":[],
      ": to use (a word and especially a noun) as a verb : to make (a word) into a verb":[
        "A television announcer in Vero Beach, Fla., spoke of a promise \"to upkeep the beach,\" thus verbing a word that had been in use as an honest noun since 1884.",
        "\u2014 James Kilpatrick",
        "But it is by no means unusual for a noun to be verbed .",
        "\u2014 Theodore M. Bernstein"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rb"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Drill, in the hip-hop sense, is not just a genre name but also a verb . \u2014 Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker , 18 Apr. 2022",
      "So remember to choose your words wisely and add a verb to every CTA. \u2014 Mike Kappel, Forbes , 26 May 2022",
      "Lately, market leader Uber UBER 0.47% Technologies has moved beyond the service that made its name a verb . \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 22 May 2022",
      "While the Native American students profiled here and there seem to thrive, the programs Lowe facilitated, a squishy verb if ever there was one, seem to be symbolic rather than substantive. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 26 Mar. 2022",
      "At Chinese universities, when a student reports a professor for political wrongdoing, the verb that\u2019s used to describe this action is jubao. \u2014 Peter Hessler, The New Yorker , 9 May 2022",
      "However, in certain clause types the verb actually comes first on the surface, as in Will the plan fail",
      "Like Google, Amazon, and other tech giants, Uber often seems less like a company and more like an institution, a fact of life \u2014 to the point that, also like Google, it's become a verb . \u2014 Tyler Aquilina, EW.com , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "By 2012, when Oxford Dictionaries named GIF the U.S. word of the year, the term was being used as a verb , not just as a noun. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verbe , borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin verbum \"word, verb\" \u2014 more at word entry 1":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1928, in the meaning defined above":"Verb"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-044931"
  },
  "verb sap":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verbum sap":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1841, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rb-\u02c8sap"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131723",
    "type":[
      "Latin phrase"
    ]
  },
  "verbal":{
    "antonyms":[
      "nonlexical",
      "nonlinguistic",
      "nonverbal"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a word that combines characteristics of a verb with those of a noun or adjective \u2014 compare gerund , infinitive , participle":[],
      ": consisting of or using words only and not involving action":[
        "verbal abuse"
      ],
      ": of or relating to facility in the use and comprehension of words":[
        "verbal aptitude"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or consisting of words":[
        "verbal instructions"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or formed from a verb":[
        "a verbal adjective"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or involving words rather than meaning or substance":[
        "a consistency that is merely verbal and scholastic",
        "\u2014 B. N. Cardozo"
      ],
      ": spoken rather than written":[
        "a verbal contract"
      ],
      ": verbatim , word-for-word":[
        "a verbal translation"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "He scored well on the verbal section of the test.",
      "They had a verbal exchange.",
      "a verbal agreement to finish the work",
      "We gave only verbal instructions.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "RyQueze McElderry, a three-star interior offensive lineman from Anniston, announced his verbal pledge on Twitter. \u2014 Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al , 4 July 2022",
      "An already eventful fight week for Adesanya \u2013 filled with big talk, a wild verbal sparring match with Sean Strickland, and an intense faceoff with Cannonier \u2013 got even more interesting when Drake reached out to FaceTime with him Thursday. \u2014 Simon Samano, USA TODAY , 2 July 2022",
      "One recent study, which analyzed data from five Massachusetts hospitals over a four-year period, found that verbal consent was documented in less than a third of maternal toxicology tests. \u2014 Anne Branigin, Washington Post , 2 July 2022",
      "While Holloway and Volkanovski trade verbal jabs like any top contenders, there\u2019s a clear respect between the two best featherweights in UFC history not named Jose Aldo. \u2014 Greg Beacham, ajc , 1 July 2022",
      "By contrast, the Court rejected an effort to turn a verbal censure into a free-speech violation: Sometimes, speech can be met with more speech. \u2014 The Editors, National Review , 1 July 2022",
      "Cannonier, the No. 1 contender, took some verbal jabs from Adesanya, who is a heavy favorite from oddsmakers to win and keep his unified title. \u2014 Jos\u00e9 M. Romero, The Arizona Republic , 1 July 2022",
      "Even with verbal deals permitted, signings can\u2019t become official until July 6. \u2014 Chris Fedor, cleveland , 1 July 2022",
      "The sensory bags will include noise-canceling headphones, fidget tools, verbal cue cards and weighted lap pads. \u2014 Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel , 30 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1530, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verbale , borrowed from Late Latin verb\u0101lis , from Latin verbum \"word, verb entry 1 \" + -\u0101lis -al entry 1":"Adjective",
      "borrowed from New Latin verb\u0101lis , noun derivative of Late Latin verb\u0101lis verbal entry 1":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "lexical",
      "linguistic",
      "linguistical",
      "rhetorical",
      "rhetoric",
      "vocabular",
      "wordy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-110049",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal abuse":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": harsh and insulting language directed at a person":[
        "She was a victim of verbal abuse ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-051412",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal auxiliary":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an auxiliary verb":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1958, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-141112",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal definition":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": nominal definition":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-194816",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal fallacy":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": unsound reasoning that uses words ambiguously or otherwise violates a condition for the proper use of language in argument \u2014 compare amphibology , fallacy of composition , fallacy of division , formal fallacy":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-190933",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal image":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mental image representing a word as heard, as seen, or as felt when pronounced":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-202301",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal inspiration":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the theological doctrine that a divine inspiration extends to every word of a particular text":[
        "those who defend the verbal inspiration of the Bible"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170541",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbalism":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a verbal expression : term":[],
      ": a wordy expression of little meaning":[],
      ": phrasing , wording":[],
      ": verbosity":[],
      ": words used as if they were more important than the realities they represent":[
        "the emancipation of science from verbalism",
        "\u2014 G. A. L. Sarton"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the meticulous verbalism of the senator's prepared statement suggests that she knew that it would spark controversy",
      "prose that is lean, uncluttered, and utterly devoid of any trace of verbalism",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Remaining on stage with gracious verbalism , Batiste first acknowledged the nominees. \u2014 Allison Hazel, Essence , 9 June 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verbal entry 1 + -ism":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-b\u0259-\u02ccli-z\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "articulation",
      "expression",
      "formulation",
      "phrasing",
      "statement",
      "utterance",
      "voice",
      "wording"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055929",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbalist":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a person who uses words skillfully":[],
      ": one who stresses words above substance or reality":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1609, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verbal entry 1 + -ist entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-b\u0259-list"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060315",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbality":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a verbal statement or formulation":[
        "if they agree with these verbalities and effects, we can know that our ideas of the past are true",
        "\u2014 William James"
      ],
      ": the quality or nature of a verb":[],
      ": verbiage":[
        "prolix, drawling stuff, full of stale, puling verbality",
        "\u2014 G. T. Buckley"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "-l\u0259t\u0113",
      "\u02ccv\u0259r\u02c8bal\u0259t\u0113",
      "-i"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030909",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbalize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to convert into a verb":[],
      ": to express something in words":[],
      ": to name or express in words":[],
      ": to speak or write verbosely":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She didn't know how to verbalize her feelings.",
      "couldn't quite verbalize the cause of his mental distress",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Take time every day to notice and verbalize appreciation for contributions both great and small. \u2014 Expert Panel\u00ae, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "And it\u2019s not the kind of thing this group can verbalize . \u2014 Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "That includes conversations from an early age about how to identify and verbalize one\u2019s feelings, to skills and strategies that kids can use in a moment of crisis. \u2014 Seamus Mcavoy, courant.com , 13 Feb. 2022",
      "One way to do that is to verbalize the item\u2019s location. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "Although casually tossed around within running vernacular as a synonym for determination, sisu is a notoriously difficult concept to verbalize , and harder still to translate from Finnish into any other language. \u2014 Outside Online , 27 Apr. 2021",
      "Nate does verbalize those feelings of abandonment to Ted. \u2014 Danielle Turchiano, Variety , 8 Oct. 2021",
      "Toddlers over 26 months, who could verbalize about the event at the time, recalled it up to five years later, whereas those under 26 months, who could not talk about it, recalled little or nothing. \u2014 Jeanne Shinskey, CNN , 13 Aug. 2021",
      "Similarly, adults who cannot verbalize their feelings tend to express themselves with their actions, Smith said. \u2014 Jenna Eason, ajc , 18 July 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1609, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verbal entry 1 + -ize , perhaps after French verbaliser":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-b\u0259-\u02ccl\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "articulate",
      "bring out",
      "enunciate",
      "pass",
      "say",
      "speak",
      "state",
      "talk",
      "tell",
      "utter",
      "vocalize"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110906",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "verbiage":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content":[
        "such a tangled maze of evasive verbiage as a typical party platform",
        "\u2014 Marcia Davenport"
      ],
      ": manner of expressing oneself in words : diction":[
        "sportswriters guarded their verbiage so jealously",
        "\u2014 R. A. Sokolov"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "NOT the least of the many trials inflicted upon the Boston Red Sox has been a torrent of verbiage . Surely no team in recent memory has been so scrutinized, complained about and then elegized. \u2014 Charles McGrath , New York Times Book Review , 13 Aug. 2006",
      "Fashionable courtiers in the Renaissance adopted the doublet. \u2026 The cotton padding of this jacket, called bombast (the source of the term for inflated verbiage ), was gradually increased to give courtiers the pumped-up look. \u2014 John Tierney , New York Times , 21 Jan. 1999",
      "To find the height of arcane verbiage look no farther than Rule 10 of the rules governing Major League Baseball, in what is known as the Blue Book. The corresponding entry explains the waivers system\u2014the procedures that pertain to certain player transactions\u2014in a way that makes the Magna Carta look like part of the Jackie Collins oeuvre. \u2014 Tom Verducci , Sports Illustrated , 25 Aug. 1997",
      "Sure, some contract verbiage is so objectionable, it can be considered against public policy; in fact, the most arduous hold-harmless clauses would probably be thrown out of court. \u2014 Leon H. Ciesla , Plane & Pilot , March 1995",
      "Is word processing truly the wonder it seems or will it turn out to be but a mere exercise in verbose verbiage ",
      "The editor removed some of the excess verbiage from the article.",
      "teachers loathe the verbiage that students resort to in order to pad a paper",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "However, even with the fines and the bans on blatant usage of verbiage that advertises skin lightening, the products are still being sold around the globe, peddled by celebrities like Blac Chyna and Dencia. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 30 May 2022",
      "The former Chicago White Sox player and manager \u2014 and current NBC Sports Chicago analyst \u2014 once again has been accused of excessive verbiage , this time by Sox shortstop Tim Anderson. \u2014 Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune , 18 May 2022",
      "There had been also been lot of past-tense verbiage being used in the final days of the season. \u2014 Andy Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 11 May 2022",
      "Visitors often respond to color, verbiage and trust indicators on a site. \u2014 Douglas Karr, Forbes , 23 May 2022",
      "The linebacker reunited with his former defensive coordinator with the Rams by signing as a free agent last week, Reeder joining the Chargers already comfortable with the verbiage , concepts and techniques of Staley\u2019s system. \u2014 Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Afualo recalls a time when a thin white creator modelled her TikTok content off of Afualo\u2019s, using the same mannerisms and verbiage as Afualo to post a clapback video. \u2014 Lexy White, refinery29.com , 12 May 2022",
      "However, Cindy Nguyen, policy director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Oklahoma, pointed out that verbiage was specifically taken from a bill that is currently halted in the state's legislature. \u2014 Aj Willingham, CNN , 23 Apr. 2022",
      "The spot Ryan is airing focuses on China with a clear general-election focus, including verbiage that has been commonplace in the Republican primary. \u2014 cleveland , 28 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1721, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French, from verbier \"to trill, warble\" (going back to Middle French verboier \"to twitter,\" altered from Middle French dialect (Picard) verbloier, guerbloier , derivative of werbler \"to sing expressively, trill\") + -age -age \u2014 more at warble entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "also -bij",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-b\u0113-ij"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "circumlocution",
      "diffuseness",
      "diffusion",
      "garrulity",
      "garrulousness",
      "logorrhea",
      "long-windedness",
      "periphrasis",
      "prolixity",
      "redundancy",
      "verbalism",
      "verboseness",
      "verbosity",
      "windiness",
      "wordage",
      "wordiness"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-232058",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbigeration":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": continual repetition of stereotyped phrases (as in some forms of mental illness)":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1886, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from German Verbigeration , from Latin verbiger\u0101re \"to exchange words, converse\" (from verbum \"word, verb entry 1 \" + -i- -i- + -ger\u0101re , frequentative derivative of gerere \"to carry, carry on, perform\") + German -ation -ation \u2014 more at jest":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02ccbi-j\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n",
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02ccbij-\u0259-\u02c8r\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-114651",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbile":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one whose mental imagery consists of words \u2014 compare audile":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin verb um word + English -ile (as in audile )":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r\u02ccb\u012bl"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-181146",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbomania":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mania for words : excessive use of or obsession with words":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from verbo- (from Latin verbum word) + mania":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259rb\u0259+"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061346",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbomaniac":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": one afflicted with verbomania":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary, from New Latin verbomania , after Late Latin mania: International Scientific Vocabulary maniac":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234601",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbose":{
    "antonyms":[
      "compact",
      "concise",
      "crisp",
      "pithy",
      "succinct",
      "terse"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": given to wordiness":[
        "a verbose orator"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Something seems to have gone seriously wrong with the subediting and proof-reading of this self-indulgently verbose and misprint-ridden production, which is further flawed by a mis-match between the author's vaulting theoretical ambitions and his scholarly limitations, notably his faulty grasp of ancient Greek and inability to deliver a clear and consistent line of reasoned and logical argument. \u2014 Paul Cartledge , Times Literary Supplement , 8 Mar. 1991",
      "What makes this tiny tome so much fun are the answers. There are occasional one-word zingers: to a verbose question as to whether a resident of a planet with two suns would have two shadows, Merlin's response is \"Yes.\" The longest answers are about a page in length and seem to be triggered when a questioner happens upon one of the author's favorite topics or pet peeves, such as relativity, tachyons, and the endangered ozone layer. \u2014 James H. Sharp , Air & Space Smithsonian , February/March 1990",
      "I must confess \u2026 that if I had known how many classics there are in English literature, and how verbose the best of them contrive to be, I should never have undertaken the work. They only allow one seventy thousand words, you see. \u2014 Virginia Woolf , The Voyage Out , 1915",
      "He is a verbose speaker.",
      "She has a verbose writing style.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Laurie Woolery, who has helmed the premieres of several new plays at another New Haven theater, the Yale Rep, in New Haven, has a knack for packing action and needed distraction into scenes that might otherwise be tiringly verbose . \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Nate wasn\u2019t very verbose about what had gone on in the foyer. \u2014 Katcy Stephan, Variety , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "This is a great tool to use so that more verbose and talkative members of the classroom don\u2019t dominate the conversations. \u2014 Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Tate\u2019s ethic of linking the intellectual, practical, and transgressive dimensions of Black cultures came alive in verbose bouts of playfulness that came straight from his participation in Black communal spaces. \u2014 Tirhakah Love, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "Some believe that the human passenger should be able to activate a more verbose version of the commentary driving. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
      "Advocates and others say the verbose documents are hard to navigate and daunting when staff needs to know what to do quickly. \u2014 Claudia Lauer, Star Tribune , 25 June 2021",
      "The younger brother of Lonzo and LiAngelo and the son of verbose LaVar, LaMelo received national headlines for making a half-court shot two seconds into a high school game in 2016. \u2014 Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "For the most part, the verbose DC-area MC \u2014 and stalwart of Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group \u2014 holds fast to the buoyant, conversational sound that's filled his catalog. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 22 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin verb\u014dsus , from verbum \"word, verb entry 1 \" + -\u014dsus -ose entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8b\u014ds"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for verbose wordy , verbose , prolix , diffuse mean using more words than necessary to express thought. wordy may also imply loquaciousness or garrulity. a wordy speech verbose suggests a resulting dullness, obscurity, or lack of incisiveness or precision. the verbose position papers prolix suggests unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details. habitually transformed brief anecdotes into prolix sagas diffuse stresses lack of compactness and pointedness of style. diffuse memoirs that are so many shaggy-dog stories",
    "synonyms":[
      "circuitous",
      "circumlocutory",
      "diffuse",
      "garrulous",
      "logorrheic",
      "long-winded",
      "pleonastic",
      "prolix",
      "rambling",
      "windy",
      "wordy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202222",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbosely":{
    "antonyms":[
      "compact",
      "concise",
      "crisp",
      "pithy",
      "succinct",
      "terse"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": given to wordiness":[
        "a verbose orator"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Something seems to have gone seriously wrong with the subediting and proof-reading of this self-indulgently verbose and misprint-ridden production, which is further flawed by a mis-match between the author's vaulting theoretical ambitions and his scholarly limitations, notably his faulty grasp of ancient Greek and inability to deliver a clear and consistent line of reasoned and logical argument. \u2014 Paul Cartledge , Times Literary Supplement , 8 Mar. 1991",
      "What makes this tiny tome so much fun are the answers. There are occasional one-word zingers: to a verbose question as to whether a resident of a planet with two suns would have two shadows, Merlin's response is \"Yes.\" The longest answers are about a page in length and seem to be triggered when a questioner happens upon one of the author's favorite topics or pet peeves, such as relativity, tachyons, and the endangered ozone layer. \u2014 James H. Sharp , Air & Space Smithsonian , February/March 1990",
      "I must confess \u2026 that if I had known how many classics there are in English literature, and how verbose the best of them contrive to be, I should never have undertaken the work. They only allow one seventy thousand words, you see. \u2014 Virginia Woolf , The Voyage Out , 1915",
      "He is a verbose speaker.",
      "She has a verbose writing style.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Laurie Woolery, who has helmed the premieres of several new plays at another New Haven theater, the Yale Rep, in New Haven, has a knack for packing action and needed distraction into scenes that might otherwise be tiringly verbose . \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Nate wasn\u2019t very verbose about what had gone on in the foyer. \u2014 Katcy Stephan, Variety , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "This is a great tool to use so that more verbose and talkative members of the classroom don\u2019t dominate the conversations. \u2014 Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Tate\u2019s ethic of linking the intellectual, practical, and transgressive dimensions of Black cultures came alive in verbose bouts of playfulness that came straight from his participation in Black communal spaces. \u2014 Tirhakah Love, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "Some believe that the human passenger should be able to activate a more verbose version of the commentary driving. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
      "Advocates and others say the verbose documents are hard to navigate and daunting when staff needs to know what to do quickly. \u2014 Claudia Lauer, Star Tribune , 25 June 2021",
      "The younger brother of Lonzo and LiAngelo and the son of verbose LaVar, LaMelo received national headlines for making a half-court shot two seconds into a high school game in 2016. \u2014 Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "For the most part, the verbose DC-area MC \u2014 and stalwart of Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group \u2014 holds fast to the buoyant, conversational sound that's filled his catalog. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 22 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin verb\u014dsus , from verbum \"word, verb entry 1 \" + -\u014dsus -ose entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8b\u014ds"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for verbose wordy , verbose , prolix , diffuse mean using more words than necessary to express thought. wordy may also imply loquaciousness or garrulity. a wordy speech verbose suggests a resulting dullness, obscurity, or lack of incisiveness or precision. the verbose position papers prolix suggests unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details. habitually transformed brief anecdotes into prolix sagas diffuse stresses lack of compactness and pointedness of style. diffuse memoirs that are so many shaggy-dog stories",
    "synonyms":[
      "circuitous",
      "circumlocutory",
      "diffuse",
      "garrulous",
      "logorrheic",
      "long-winded",
      "pleonastic",
      "prolix",
      "rambling",
      "windy",
      "wordy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-055303",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verboseness":{
    "antonyms":[
      "compact",
      "concise",
      "crisp",
      "pithy",
      "succinct",
      "terse"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": given to wordiness":[
        "a verbose orator"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Something seems to have gone seriously wrong with the subediting and proof-reading of this self-indulgently verbose and misprint-ridden production, which is further flawed by a mis-match between the author's vaulting theoretical ambitions and his scholarly limitations, notably his faulty grasp of ancient Greek and inability to deliver a clear and consistent line of reasoned and logical argument. \u2014 Paul Cartledge , Times Literary Supplement , 8 Mar. 1991",
      "What makes this tiny tome so much fun are the answers. There are occasional one-word zingers: to a verbose question as to whether a resident of a planet with two suns would have two shadows, Merlin's response is \"Yes.\" The longest answers are about a page in length and seem to be triggered when a questioner happens upon one of the author's favorite topics or pet peeves, such as relativity, tachyons, and the endangered ozone layer. \u2014 James H. Sharp , Air & Space Smithsonian , February/March 1990",
      "I must confess \u2026 that if I had known how many classics there are in English literature, and how verbose the best of them contrive to be, I should never have undertaken the work. They only allow one seventy thousand words, you see. \u2014 Virginia Woolf , The Voyage Out , 1915",
      "He is a verbose speaker.",
      "She has a verbose writing style.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Laurie Woolery, who has helmed the premieres of several new plays at another New Haven theater, the Yale Rep, in New Haven, has a knack for packing action and needed distraction into scenes that might otherwise be tiringly verbose . \u2014 Christopher Arnott, courant.com , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Nate wasn\u2019t very verbose about what had gone on in the foyer. \u2014 Katcy Stephan, Variety , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "This is a great tool to use so that more verbose and talkative members of the classroom don\u2019t dominate the conversations. \u2014 Janice Gassam Asare, Forbes , 23 Dec. 2021",
      "Tate\u2019s ethic of linking the intellectual, practical, and transgressive dimensions of Black cultures came alive in verbose bouts of playfulness that came straight from his participation in Black communal spaces. \u2014 Tirhakah Love, Vulture , 14 Dec. 2021",
      "Some believe that the human passenger should be able to activate a more verbose version of the commentary driving. \u2014 Lance Eliot, Forbes , 10 Nov. 2021",
      "Advocates and others say the verbose documents are hard to navigate and daunting when staff needs to know what to do quickly. \u2014 Claudia Lauer, Star Tribune , 25 June 2021",
      "The younger brother of Lonzo and LiAngelo and the son of verbose LaVar, LaMelo received national headlines for making a half-court shot two seconds into a high school game in 2016. \u2014 Rusty Simmons, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Nov. 2021",
      "For the most part, the verbose DC-area MC \u2014 and stalwart of Rick Ross's Maybach Music Group \u2014 holds fast to the buoyant, conversational sound that's filled his catalog. \u2014 Ew Staff, EW.com , 22 Sep. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1531, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin verb\u014dsus , from verbum \"word, verb entry 1 \" + -\u014dsus -ose entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8b\u014ds"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for verbose wordy , verbose , prolix , diffuse mean using more words than necessary to express thought. wordy may also imply loquaciousness or garrulity. a wordy speech verbose suggests a resulting dullness, obscurity, or lack of incisiveness or precision. the verbose position papers prolix suggests unreasonable and tedious dwelling on details. habitually transformed brief anecdotes into prolix sagas diffuse stresses lack of compactness and pointedness of style. diffuse memoirs that are so many shaggy-dog stories",
    "synonyms":[
      "circuitous",
      "circumlocutory",
      "diffuse",
      "garrulous",
      "logorrheic",
      "long-winded",
      "pleonastic",
      "prolix",
      "rambling",
      "windy",
      "wordy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011856",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbosity":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being verbose or wordy : the use of too many words":[
        "So his wife's good-natured jab about his verbosity comes as no surprise, nor did it when an impromptu conversation with him Monday afternoon stretched so long it nearly made me late to pick up my kids from daycare.",
        "\u2014 Matt Driscoll",
        "\u2026 an art form with more than its share of superfluous verbosity and thematic self-indulgence \u2026",
        "\u2014 Chris Jones",
        "At its worst it suffers from the verbosity and repetitiveness of a political science treatise \u2026",
        "\u2014 Edward Mortimer"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1541, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8b\u00e4-s\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-214949",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verboten":{
    "antonyms":[
      "allowable",
      "permissible",
      "permissive",
      "sufferable"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": not permitted or allowed : forbidden or prohibited by or as if by authority":[
        "These visits \u2026 qualify as \"research\" under the convoluted regulations of the U.S. embargo and are therefore deemed legal, whereas pleasure travel is verboten .",
        "\u2014 Richard Alleman",
        "Same-sex marriage and gay parents, topics once verboten in mainstream America, have become hot-buttons in this election year.",
        "\u2014 Dirk Johnson et al.",
        "\u2026 it's easy to forget that such intercultural exchanges were once verboten .",
        "\u2014 Boston",
        "For a long time paisley ties were verboten on the Jayhawk bench because Brown was wearing one when he lost his first game at Kansas five years ago.",
        "\u2014 Jack McCallum"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a college campus on which any form of hate speech was strictly verboten",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "That bit of backstory was verboten for the game's German release, thanks to that country's long-standing (and recently reversed) prohibition on using Nazi symbols and storylines in video games. \u2014 Kyle Orland, Ars Technica , 21 June 2022",
      "Collectibles such as stamps, coins, rugs or antiques have long been verboten . \u2014 Spencer Jakab, WSJ , 17 June 2022",
      "After all, weed has been at the forefront of policy discussions in the U.S. over the past decade, with the formerly verboten drug now legalized for recreational use in 18 states and decriminalized in 13 more. \u2014 Christian Holub, EW.com , 20 Apr. 2022",
      "His wife, Heidi Montag, has eliminated single-use plastic in their home, making balloons verboten . \u2014 New York Times , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "Even on the streets of the capital, Pyongyang, where criticizing the Kim dynasty is verboten , whispers arose about his youth, inexperience and murky parentage. \u2014 Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times , 16 Dec. 2021",
      "Van Gogh had been using black, verboten among Impressionists, since 1888. \u2014 Brian T. Allen, National Review , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "By Friday morning, talk of interventionism was verboten . \u2014 Laura Jedeed, The New Republic , 26 Feb. 2022",
      "Electric instruments were mostly verboten , giving the movement a conservative aesthetic. \u2014 Sasha Frere-jones, The New Yorker , 24 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1866, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from German, going back to Old High German farboten , past participle of farbiotan \"to forbid,\" (parallel to Old English forb\u0113odan \"to forbid entry 1 \"), from far-, fur- for- + biotan \"to offer\" \u2014 more at bid entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "f\u0259r-",
      "ver-",
      "v\u0259r-\u02c8b\u014d-t\u1d4an"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "banned",
      "barred",
      "forbidden",
      "impermissible",
      "interdicted",
      "outlawed",
      "prohibited",
      "proscribed",
      "taboo",
      "tabu"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082805",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "verdant":{
    "antonyms":[
      "barren",
      "leafless"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": green in tint or color":[],
      ": green with growing plants":[
        "verdant fields"
      ],
      ": unripe in experience or judgment : green sense 5a":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "But the church has frequently been called out for its conspicuously verdant turf and vegetation, including in YouTube videos and letters to The Salt Lake Tribune, even as cities have cracked down on overwatering in recent years. \u2014 Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune , 22 June 2022",
      "Jonathan Feldman and Lisa Lougee felt a little sheepish about their lush lawn, which is spread out in a verdant carpet of meadow grass across the wide lot surrounding their 1911 Edwardian in the Richmond neighborhood of San Francisco. \u2014 Sunset Magazine , 21 June 2022",
      "Logan, whose virtuosity with oil stick and pastel on paper has few peers, makes extravagantly lush, verdant images of blooming vitality laced with an undertone of dread. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Lined with verdant green foliage, the building\u2019s four-level facade stands out in new renderings as an urban oasis alongside the city\u2019s breezy palm trees. \u2014 Demetrius Simms, Robb Report , 11 June 2022",
      "There, visitors can explore more than 260 acres of verdant land, including 13 miles of hiking and biking trails. \u2014 Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure , 10 June 2022",
      "Starting in the Triassic Period, almost 252 million years ago, parts of our state burst with verdant foliage. \u2014 Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic , 6 June 2022",
      "As that piece bucked and heaved and tugged the sun up over its verdant horizon, the teen sat rapt, leaning forward as if in prayer. \u2014 Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune , 3 June 2022",
      "The study in beige is broken with sauteed dandelion greens, verdant punctuation for the homiest dish on the menu. \u2014 Tom Sietsema, Washington Post , 3 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1581, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "contracted from Middle French verdoyant , from present participle of verdoyer \"to be green, turn green,\" going back to Old French verdoier , from verd, vert \"green\" (going back to Latin viridis , from a base *wir- , whence vir\u0113re \"to show green growth, be green\" of uncertain origin) + -oier , factitive verb suffix, going back to Latin -idi\u0101re , originally representing variant pronunciation (or spelling variant) of -iz\u0101re -ize":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-d\u1d4ant"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "green",
      "grown",
      "leafy",
      "lush",
      "luxuriant",
      "overgrown"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070923",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verdict":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": opinion , judgment":[],
      ": the finding or decision of a jury on the matter submitted to it in trial":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The verdict was not guilty.",
      "The jury reached a guilty verdict .",
      "Do you want my verdict on the meal",
      "The critic's verdict about the show was positive.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The verdict was read in a Santa Monica, California, court room on Tuesday after the jury began deliberating on Thursday, per The New York Times and the Associated Press. \u2014 Olivia Jakiel, PEOPLE.com , 21 June 2022",
      "Since the conclusion of the Virginia trial, Heard\u2019s attorney, Elaine Bredehoft, has publicly stated her client plans to appeal the verdict . \u2014 William Earl, Variety , 15 June 2022",
      "Bredehoft said that Heard plans to appeal the verdict . \u2014 CBS News , 14 June 2022",
      "Heard now plans to appeal the verdict in her own case, EW had earlier reported. \u2014 Nick Romano, EW.com , 13 June 2022",
      "The group returned at about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, and the verdict was read at about 1:50 p.m. \u2014 Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel , 9 June 2022",
      "But online the disparity in the public support for the two was especially obvious and largely poisonous towards Heard, who has vowed to appeal the verdict . \u2014 Maria Puente, USA TODAY , 7 June 2022",
      "Defense attorney Jason Thompson said Hays would appeal the verdict . \u2014 oregonlive , 6 June 2022",
      "The courtroom was packed as the verdict was read aloud. \u2014 al , 3 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verdit, verdict , borrowed from Anglo-French veirdit \"announcement, finding, judicial decision,\" from veir \"true\" (going back to Latin v\u0113rus ) + dit \"statement, judgment\" (going back to Latin dictum ), after Medieval Latin v\u0113rumdictum, v\u0113redictum \u2014 more at very entry 2 , dictum":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-(\u02cc)dikt",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-dikt"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "award",
      "call",
      "conclusion",
      "decision",
      "deliverance",
      "determination",
      "diagnosis",
      "judgment",
      "judgement",
      "opinion",
      "resolution"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070532",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verdure":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a condition of health and vigor":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a good time to tour the wine country is when it is clothed with the verdure of midsummer",
      "a portrait of a fresh-faced teenage girl in all of her youthful verdure and irrepressible joie de vivre",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Brussels sprouts make the delicious verdure pizza look like Christmas. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Dec. 2021",
      "The road was flanked by walls of dolomite, valley floors of grapevines and verdure . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Nov. 2021",
      "The pizza that calls to me most, verdure , looks like Christmas. \u2014 Washington Post , 29 Oct. 2021",
      "And an acknowledgment of allegory: that a color could stand for a condition of verdure , ailing, on a planetary scale. \u2014 Gillian Osborne, Harper's Magazine , 22 June 2021",
      "Raspberry Powder Roberto Toro, Chef at Belmond Grand Hotel Timeo in Sicily Chef Roberto Toro shares his personal interpretation of the traditional Sicilian dish of tubettini alle verdure e pecorino, which can be easily recreated at home. \u2014 Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure , 6 Apr. 2020",
      "The Latin viridis evoked virility, virtue, and verdure . \u2014 John Patrick Leary, The New Republic , 25 Oct. 2019",
      "Other eats Starting our meal was the verdure agro dulce ($13), a plate of yellow and purple cauliflower, romanesco, green beans, pine nuts and golden raisins sitting in a pool of a sweet vinegary sauce. \u2014 Lauren Delgado, OrlandoSentinel.com , 14 July 2018",
      "One, dripping in verdure , is that of the cocktail and oyster lounge Maison Premiere, in Williamsburg. \u2014 Neima Jahromi, The New Yorker , 8 June 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, from verd \"green\" + -ure -ure \u2014 more at verdant":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-j\u0259r",
      "also -dy\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "flora",
      "foliage",
      "green",
      "greenery",
      "herbage",
      "leafage",
      "vegetation"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225717",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verge":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a paved or planted strip of land at the edge of a road : shoulder":[],
      ": a rod or staff carried as an emblem of authority or symbol of office":[],
      ": a stick or wand held by a person being admitted to tenancy while he swears fealty":[],
      ": an outer margin of an object or structural part":[],
      ": brink , threshold":[
        "a country on the verge of destruction",
        "\u2014 Archibald MacLeish"
      ],
      ": something that borders, limits, or bounds: such as":[],
      ": the edge of roof covering (such as tiling) projecting over the gable of a roof":[],
      ": the male copulatory organ of any of various invertebrates":[],
      ": to be contiguous":[],
      ": to be in transition or change":[],
      ": to be on the verge or border":[
        "the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness",
        "\u2014 Thomas Hardy"
      ],
      ": to move or extend in some direction or toward some condition":[
        "verging to a hasty decline",
        "\u2014 Edward Gibbon"
      ],
      ": to move or tend toward the horizon : sink":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the suspect was on the verge of confessing when the officers realized that he hadn't been read his rights",
      "the southern verge of the national park"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a(1)":"Noun",
      "1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, \"rod, measuring rod, margin,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, \"rod, area of jurisdiction,\" going back to Latin virga \"shoot, twig, rod, line,\"; perhaps, if going back to *wiz-g- , akin to Old Norse visk \"wisp\" \u2014 more at whisk entry 1":"Noun",
      "borrowed from Latin vergere \"to move downward, slope downward, sink,\" going back to Indo-European *h 2 u\u032ferg- \"turn around, turn (to),\" whence also, with varying ablaut and suffixation, Greek e\u00e9rg\u014d, e\u00e9rgein (Attic e\u00edrgein ) \"to shut in, keep away, hinder\" (conflated with outcomes of *u\u032fer\u01f5- \"shut in\"), Sanskrit (Vedic) v\u1e5b\u1e47\u00e1kti \"(s/he) turns,\" and, as a nominal derivative, Hittite \u1e2burki- \"wheel\"":"Verb",
      "verbal derivative of verge entry 1":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rj"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "brink",
      "cusp",
      "edge",
      "point",
      "threshold"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-042600",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "verge (on)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to come near to being (something)":[
        "comedy that verges on farce",
        "His accusations were verging on slander."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-222242",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ]
  },
  "verging":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a paved or planted strip of land at the edge of a road : shoulder":[],
      ": a rod or staff carried as an emblem of authority or symbol of office":[],
      ": a stick or wand held by a person being admitted to tenancy while he swears fealty":[],
      ": an outer margin of an object or structural part":[],
      ": brink , threshold":[
        "a country on the verge of destruction",
        "\u2014 Archibald MacLeish"
      ],
      ": something that borders, limits, or bounds: such as":[],
      ": the edge of roof covering (such as tiling) projecting over the gable of a roof":[],
      ": the male copulatory organ of any of various invertebrates":[],
      ": to be contiguous":[],
      ": to be in transition or change":[],
      ": to be on the verge or border":[
        "the line where sentiment verges on mawkishness",
        "\u2014 Thomas Hardy"
      ],
      ": to move or extend in some direction or toward some condition":[
        "verging to a hasty decline",
        "\u2014 Edward Gibbon"
      ],
      ": to move or tend toward the horizon : sink":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "the suspect was on the verge of confessing when the officers realized that he hadn't been read his rights",
      "the southern verge of the national park"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2a(1)":"Noun",
      "1610, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Verb",
      "1787, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Verb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, \"rod, measuring rod, margin,\" borrowed from Anglo-French, \"rod, area of jurisdiction,\" going back to Latin virga \"shoot, twig, rod, line,\"; perhaps, if going back to *wiz-g- , akin to Old Norse visk \"wisp\" \u2014 more at whisk entry 1":"Noun",
      "borrowed from Latin vergere \"to move downward, slope downward, sink,\" going back to Indo-European *h 2 u\u032ferg- \"turn around, turn (to),\" whence also, with varying ablaut and suffixation, Greek e\u00e9rg\u014d, e\u00e9rgein (Attic e\u00edrgein ) \"to shut in, keep away, hinder\" (conflated with outcomes of *u\u032fer\u01f5- \"shut in\"), Sanskrit (Vedic) v\u1e5b\u1e47\u00e1kti \"(s/he) turns,\" and, as a nominal derivative, Hittite \u1e2burki- \"wheel\"":"Verb",
      "verbal derivative of verge entry 1":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rj"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "brink",
      "cusp",
      "edge",
      "point",
      "threshold"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-170245",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "verification principle":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verifiability principle":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-113227",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verificatory":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": that is capable of verification or serves to verify : verifying , authenticating , confirming":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verificat ion + -ory":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0101\u2027tr\u0113",
      "\u02c8ver\u0259f\u0259\u0307\u02cck\u0101t\u0259r\u0113",
      "-\u0101t\u0259r\u0113",
      "-i"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070049",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
  },
  "verify":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disprove",
      "rebut",
      "refute"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to confirm or substantiate in law by oath":[],
      ": to establish the truth, accuracy, or reality of":[
        "verify the claim"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She verified her flight number.",
      "He verified that the item was in stock.",
      "Can you verify whether I am scheduled to work or not",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "If someone calls you unexpectedly and offers assistance, find a way to verify their identity. \u2014 Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "One person injured in the wreck was in critical condition Thursday, Sadler added, and investigators were still trying to verify the statuses of 10 people who were transported from the scene after the pileup. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 10 June 2022",
      "In his lawsuit, Ali says the magazine did not assign a fact-checker, which is a regular practice for a story of that length and did not verify any of Kiefer\u2019s allegations or give Ali the chance to disprove any of the claims made in the story. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
      "The state then uses payroll and other data to verify that the facility complied. \u2014 Susan Jaffe, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "Politico reported in October that Novavax could not consistently verify the quality of its vaccine batches. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
      "The state conducted multiple recounts to verify its election results. \u2014 Graham Kates, CBS News , 7 June 2022",
      "The remains are undergoing DNA testing to verify identities. \u2014 Julian Duplain, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
      "Unfortunately, the math involved in a blockchain has to have a very specific property: The solution must be difficult to calculate but easy to verify . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 5 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verifien , borrowed from Anglo-French verifier , borrowed from Medieval Latin v\u0113rific\u0101re , from Latin v\u0113rus \"true\" + -fic\u0101re -fy \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for verify confirm , corroborate , substantiate , verify , authenticate , validate mean to attest to the truth or validity of something. confirm implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact. confirmed the reports corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established. witnesses corroborated his story substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention. the claims have yet to be substantiated verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at. all statements of fact in the article have been verified authenticate implies establishing genuineness by adducing legal or official documents or expert opinion. handwriting experts authenticated the diaries validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or by factual proof. validated the hypothesis by experiments",
    "synonyms":[
      "argue",
      "attest",
      "authenticate",
      "bear out",
      "certify",
      "confirm",
      "corroborate",
      "substantiate",
      "support",
      "validate",
      "vindicate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015159",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "verifying":{
    "antonyms":[
      "disprove",
      "rebut",
      "refute"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to confirm or substantiate in law by oath":[],
      ": to establish the truth, accuracy, or reality of":[
        "verify the claim"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She verified her flight number.",
      "He verified that the item was in stock.",
      "Can you verify whether I am scheduled to work or not",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "If someone calls you unexpectedly and offers assistance, find a way to verify their identity. \u2014 Stu Sjouwerman, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "One person injured in the wreck was in critical condition Thursday, Sadler added, and investigators were still trying to verify the statuses of 10 people who were transported from the scene after the pileup. \u2014 Arkansas Online , 10 June 2022",
      "In his lawsuit, Ali says the magazine did not assign a fact-checker, which is a regular practice for a story of that length and did not verify any of Kiefer\u2019s allegations or give Ali the chance to disprove any of the claims made in the story. \u2014 Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times , 10 June 2022",
      "The state then uses payroll and other data to verify that the facility complied. \u2014 Susan Jaffe, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "Politico reported in October that Novavax could not consistently verify the quality of its vaccine batches. \u2014 Aria Bendix, NBC News , 7 June 2022",
      "The state conducted multiple recounts to verify its election results. \u2014 Graham Kates, CBS News , 7 June 2022",
      "The remains are undergoing DNA testing to verify identities. \u2014 Julian Duplain, Washington Post , 6 June 2022",
      "Unfortunately, the math involved in a blockchain has to have a very specific property: The solution must be difficult to calculate but easy to verify . \u2014 John Timmer, Ars Technica , 5 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verifien , borrowed from Anglo-French verifier , borrowed from Medieval Latin v\u0113rific\u0101re , from Latin v\u0113rus \"true\" + -fic\u0101re -fy \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for verify confirm , corroborate , substantiate , verify , authenticate , validate mean to attest to the truth or validity of something. confirm implies the removing of doubts by an authoritative statement or indisputable fact. confirmed the reports corroborate suggests the strengthening of what is already partly established. witnesses corroborated his story substantiate implies the offering of evidence that sustains the contention. the claims have yet to be substantiated verify implies the establishing of correspondence of actual facts or details with those proposed or guessed at. all statements of fact in the article have been verified authenticate implies establishing genuineness by adducing legal or official documents or expert opinion. handwriting experts authenticated the diaries validate implies establishing validity by authoritative affirmation or by factual proof. validated the hypothesis by experiments",
    "synonyms":[
      "argue",
      "attest",
      "authenticate",
      "bear out",
      "certify",
      "confirm",
      "corroborate",
      "substantiate",
      "support",
      "validate",
      "vindicate"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-034355",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "verily":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": in truth : certainly":[],
      ": truly , confidently":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "I verily believe that these accusations are false.",
      "verily , I don't remember a single thing about that course",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ignore my bigotry and bad character and all the kingdoms of the Courts, from lowest to highest, will verily be yours.\u2019 Pretty rough way to describe it. \u2014 NBC News , 1 July 2018",
      "If Man were meant to Fly, verily there would Be no Connections in Atlanta, Chicago, or the Sodom known as LaGuardia. \u2014 Ashley Braun, Slate Magazine , 14 July 2017",
      "But the whole cast is, verily , first-rate and clever. \u2014 John Anderson, WSJ , 6 July 2017",
      "Is academic jargon verily so problematical vis-\u00e0-vis its labyrinthine potentialities qua trans-resistive reactionings",
      "Verily , the life sciences arm of Google umbrella company Alphabet, is bugging out. \u2014 Sy Mukherjee, Fortune , 14 July 2017",
      "Verily , this is what terrorists do: invade spaces that feel safe or sacred, and destroy them. \u2014 Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker , 23 May 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verraily , from verray very entry 2 + -ly -ly entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "actually",
      "admittedly",
      "forsooth",
      "frankly",
      "honestly",
      "indeed",
      "really",
      "truly",
      "truthfully"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-060037",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "verisimilar":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": depicting realism (as in art or literature)":[],
      ": having the appearance of truth : probable":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Annie\u2019s work thus far has been meticulously verisimilar , bordering on minimalist, with depopulated nurseries and studios built of balsa wood. \u2014 Katherine Fusco, The Atlantic , 11 July 2018"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1681, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin v\u0113r\u012b similis, v\u0113r\u012bsimilis \"having the appearance of truth\" (from v\u0113r\u012b , genitive of v\u0113rum \"truth,\" noun derivative of v\u0113rus \"true\" + similis \"like, similar\") + -ar \u2014 more at very entry 2 , same entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccver-\u0259-\u02c8si-m\u0259-l\u0259r",
      "-\u02c8sim-l\u0259r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050517",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "verisimilitude":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": something verisimilar":[],
      ": the quality or state of being verisimilar":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the novel's degree of verisimilitude is compromised by 18th-century characters who speak in very 21st-century English",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Probably the last American movie to lend cycling any verisimilitude was Breaking Away in 1979. \u2014 Eben Weiss, Outside Online , 21 June 2022",
      "By setting aside verisimilitude , the production is freed up to contextualize the Continental Congress\u2019s machinations through their consequences over the ensuing 200 years. \u2014 Bob Verini, Variety , 6 June 2022",
      "The fact that Pym\u2019s stories sometimes end nowhere can be viewed as verisimilitude , but an awful lot depends on contrivance. \u2014 Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker , 30 May 2022",
      "Simon was a crime reporter himself at The Baltimore Sun for over a decade, work experience that has no doubt given his television writing strong verisimilitude . \u2014 Josh St. Clair, Men's Health , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "In the scenario\u2019s second half especially, the plotting outdoes many of the efforts at verisimilitude , and the portrait of the tirailleurs that Vadepied was trying to draw gets a bit tarnished. \u2014 Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter , 21 May 2022",
      "In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude . \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "But there are larger issues with the film\u2019s verisimilitude . \u2014 Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "When the cameras weren\u2019t rolling, Faist lent further verisimilitude to the production by embracing a leadership role of sorts among the actors playing the Jets. \u2014 Washington Post , 14 Oct. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1576, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin v\u0113r\u012bsimilit\u016bd\u014d , from v\u0113r\u012b similis, v\u0113r\u012bsimilis \"having the appearance of truth\" + -t\u016bd\u014d , suffix of abstract nouns \u2014 more at verisimilar":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccty\u00fcd",
      "\u02ccver-\u0259-s\u0259-\u02c8mi-l\u0259-\u02cct\u00fcd"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "representationalism",
      "verismo"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090828",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verisimilitude":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin verisimil is + English -ity":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u0259t\u0113"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104535",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verisimilar":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin verisimil is + English -ous":""
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-235632",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": artistic use of contemporary everyday material in preference to the heroic or legendary especially in grand opera":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1892, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
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      "borrowed from Italian verismo , from vero \"true\" (going back to Latin v\u0113rus ) + -ismo -ism \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
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    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-204809",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun",
      "noun or adjective"
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    "examples":[
      "the author of this crime novel uses profuse profanity in the name of verismo , but its effectiveness palls after a couple of chapters",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "This is a far cry from Verga\u2019s verismo and prompts the reflection that when one is trapped in a drastically dysfunctional relationship, the solution might be distance. \u2014 Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books , 23 Feb. 2021",
      "Influenced by French literary circles, the Italian verismo movement considered the real world worth representing. \u2014 Christy Thomas, Detroit Free Press , 4 Apr. 2018",
      "Perhaps the Met carefully planned this deep dive into verismo , that blood-and-guts, heart-on-sleeve, homicidally inclined genre of Italian potboiler that flourished around the turn of the 20th century. \u2014 Zachary Woolfe, New York Times , 9 Jan. 2018",
      "Dr. Contino, who specialized in the visceral, unsentimental realism of Italian verismo opera, was also a music professor and vocal coach, but was best known as an acclaimed conductor. \u2014 Sam Roberts, New York Times , 15 Mar. 2017",
      "There was hardly any Puccini, there was hardly any bel canto and no verismo . \u2014 Colleen Barry, The Seattle Times , 31 May 2017",
      "In the decades after the composer\u2019s death in 1901, performances of Verdi\u2019s operas began to fester with the most aggressive excesses of the verismo style that was gaining steam in his final years. \u2014 Zachary Woolfe, New York Times , 22 Apr. 2016"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1908, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Italian \u2014 more at verism":""
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    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0101-\u02c8r\u0113z-(\u02cc)m\u014d"
    ],
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      "literalism",
      "naturalism",
      "realism",
      "representationalism",
      "verisimilitude"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-225245",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary":[
        "\u2014 often used to stress the aptness of a metaphor a veritable mountain of references"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There is a veritable gold rush underway for automation technology to replace the need for human staff. \u2014 Raf Peeters, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "The result is a veritable , indisputable sherry bomb. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 26 June 2022",
      "The view to the vaulted arcade of the Places des Vosges and beyond to one of the most historic, beautiful, and verdant squares in a city\u2014a veritable real estate coup. \u2014 Amy Verner, Vogue , 23 June 2022",
      "Charles\u2019 new wife, a veritable spinster at the ripe old age of 11, was young but at least age-appropriate. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
      "Adolescent girls are subject to a cascade of simultaneous and often conflicting stressors\u2014a veritable unreasonable bind of elevated expectations. \u2014 Jessica L. Borelli, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
      "While obviously the lyrical sentiment contains romantic implications, the veritable love affair is really between McCartney and Lennon, their friendship and creative partnership an enviable match. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
      "Now, serious sushi lovers can rejoice \u2014 Botero Lounge is now a veritable sushi destination. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "The Kid Laroi invited some veritable legends of Australian music to join him on stage Sunday, June 12 \u2014 and not anyone from AC/DC, not Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker, Kylie Minogue, or Sia. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 13 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, \"reliable, honest, true, factual,\" borrowed from Anglo-French (continental Old French, \"real, true\"), from verit\u00e9 \"truth, verity \" + -able -able":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-014957",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": being in fact the thing named and not false, unreal, or imaginary":[
        "\u2014 often used to stress the aptness of a metaphor a veritable mountain of references"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "There is a veritable gold rush underway for automation technology to replace the need for human staff. \u2014 Raf Peeters, Forbes , 30 June 2022",
      "The result is a veritable , indisputable sherry bomb. \u2014 Jonah Flicker, Robb Report , 26 June 2022",
      "The view to the vaulted arcade of the Places des Vosges and beyond to one of the most historic, beautiful, and verdant squares in a city\u2014a veritable real estate coup. \u2014 Amy Verner, Vogue , 23 June 2022",
      "Charles\u2019 new wife, a veritable spinster at the ripe old age of 11, was young but at least age-appropriate. \u2014 Anne Th\u00e9riault, Longreads , 21 June 2022",
      "Adolescent girls are subject to a cascade of simultaneous and often conflicting stressors\u2014a veritable unreasonable bind of elevated expectations. \u2014 Jessica L. Borelli, Scientific American , 17 June 2022",
      "While obviously the lyrical sentiment contains romantic implications, the veritable love affair is really between McCartney and Lennon, their friendship and creative partnership an enviable match. \u2014 Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY , 17 June 2022",
      "Now, serious sushi lovers can rejoice \u2014 Botero Lounge is now a veritable sushi destination. \u2014 Kim Westerman, Forbes , 15 June 2022",
      "The Kid Laroi invited some veritable legends of Australian music to join him on stage Sunday, June 12 \u2014 and not anyone from AC/DC, not Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Tame Impala\u2019s Kevin Parker, Kylie Minogue, or Sia. \u2014 Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone , 13 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, \"reliable, honest, true, factual,\" borrowed from Anglo-French (continental Old French, \"real, true\"), from verit\u00e9 \"truth, verity \" + -able -able":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-t\u0259-b\u0259l"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-001915",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "veritas vos liberabit":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": truth will set you free":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8w\u0101-ri-\u02cct\u00e4s-\u02c8w\u014ds-\u02ccl\u0113-b\u0101-\u02c8r\u00e4-bit"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-073425",
    "type":[
      "Latin phrase"
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    "definitions":{
      ": verism":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verity + -ism":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver\u0259\u02cctiz\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091948",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "veritist":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verist":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verity + -ist":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-r\u0259t\u0259\u0307st"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-082731",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
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  "verity":{
    "antonyms":[
      "falseness",
      "falsity",
      "untruth"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the quality or state of being true or real":[],
      ": the quality or state of being truthful or honest":[
        "the king-becoming graces, as justice, verity",
        "\u2014 William Shakespeare"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "the local tourist bureau is less concerned with the verity of the legend than the fact that it attracts visitors to the area",
      "no one is questioning your verity \u2014just your memory of events that happened long ago",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The space, unencumbered by outside (read: white) expectations that can often influence the verity of the work, allows filmmakers to share their projects with the world exactly as they were meant to be shared. \u2014 Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com , 18 Mar. 2022",
      "Each asked for more personal information than would be necessary to mail a blank card, like date of birth and telephone number, making a verity of claims. \u2014 NBC News , 16 Sep. 2021",
      "Eliza Hittman has written and directed with the utmost delicacy and verity . \u2014 Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor , 21 Dec. 2020",
      "Old political verities proved worthless, and government largely failed to relieve the disaster. \u2014 Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 May 2020",
      "The suspension also emphasizes fundamental verities : unequal-length control arms in front, a massive Jaguar-like multi-link independent setup in the back. \u2014 Michael Jordan, Car and Driver , 21 Apr. 2020",
      "March has brought us verities , data, and a plague\u2014together with a new set of questions that are already reshaping the 2020 campaign. \u2014 John A. Farrell, The New Republic , 16 Apr. 2020",
      "Myth, magic and superstition are inextricably intertwined with everyday verities , a technique that caused Ms. Morrison\u2019s novels to be likened often to those of Latin American magic realist writers like Gabriel Garc\u00eda M\u00e1rquez. \u2014 Margalit Fox, New York Times , 8 Apr. 2015",
      "Definitions become riddles, anecdotes, opinions, myths, and vintage metaphysical verities . \u2014 Julian Lucas, Harper's magazine , 25 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verite , borrowed from Anglo-French verit\u00e9 , borrowed from Latin v\u0113rit\u0101t-, v\u0113rit\u0101s , from v\u0113rus \"true\" + -it\u0101t-, -it\u0101s -ity \u2014 more at very entry 2":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "facticity",
      "factuality",
      "sooth",
      "trueness",
      "truth"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182846",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vermilion rockfish":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a common commercially important red rock cod ( Sebastodes miniatus ) of the Pacific coast of North America that is vermilion to brick red above shading to pink and light red on the sides and belly and liberally speckled with black on the back and sides":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-202147",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vermilionize":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to make vermilion in color":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259(r)\u02c8mily\u0259\u02ccn\u012bz"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-130221",
    "type":[
      "transitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "vermin":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an offensive person":[],
      ": animals that at a particular time and place compete (as for food) with humans or domestic animals":[],
      ": birds and mammals that prey on game":[],
      ": small common harmful or objectionable animals (such as lice or fleas) that are difficult to control":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "The room was crawling with roaches and other vermin .",
      "the vermin who looted abandoned houses after the hurricane",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Back at her building, Russell examined a nearly 2-inch gap in the concrete window casing beside the front door, a place where rats and other vermin can get in. \u2014 Alan Judd, ajc , 13 June 2022",
      "Tenants at the Allen Fremont Plaza, 221 N.E. Fremont St., gathered in the courtyard of the three-story complex Wednesday, describing problems ranging from mold and vermin to homeless strangers camping in the building\u2019s indoor common areas. \u2014 oregonlive , 1 June 2022",
      "Since late December, tenants at Chesapeake Apartments have filed complaints about issues that include mold, vermin and gas and electrical problems. \u2014 Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "The vermin also expose prisoners to infection and disease, according to the lawsuit. \u2014 Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com , 19 Feb. 2022",
      "Even the widespread issue of rodents in buildings can have an effect on units, where vermin might chew on wiring and wear it down, making for a dangerous situation. \u2014 NBC News , 12 Jan. 2022",
      "The draft said vermin , loud noises and ground vibrations would likely invade the quiet space of the museum, which draws tens of thousands of visitors each year. \u2014 Seth Freed Wessler, ProPublica , 20 May 2022",
      "And health departments routinely track outbreaks of communicable diseases and inspect restaurants for pathogens or vermin . \u2014 Sam Whitehead And Julie Appleby, CNN , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "If the job of the Bat is to round up the rats, then the director needs to supply high-quality vermin . \u2014 The New Yorker , 3 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, from verm \"worm\" (going back to Latin vermis ) + -in, -ine , suffix with diminutive or pejorative value, borrowed from Italian -ino , diminutive suffix, going back to Latin -\u012bnus , suffix of appurtenance \u2014 more at worm entry 1 , -ine entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-m\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "bastard",
      "beast",
      "bleeder",
      "blighter",
      "boor",
      "bounder",
      "bugger",
      "buzzard",
      "cad",
      "chuff",
      "churl",
      "clown",
      "creep",
      "cretin",
      "crud",
      "crumb",
      "cur",
      "dirtbag",
      "dog",
      "fink",
      "heel",
      "hound",
      "jerk",
      "joker",
      "louse",
      "lout",
      "pill",
      "rat",
      "rat fink",
      "reptile",
      "rotter",
      "schmuck",
      "scum",
      "scumbag",
      "scuzzball",
      "skunk",
      "sleaze",
      "sleazebag",
      "sleazeball",
      "slime",
      "slimeball",
      "slob",
      "snake",
      "so-and-so",
      "sod",
      "stinkard",
      "stinker",
      "swine",
      "toad",
      "varmint"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193633",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verminate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to become infested with vermin":[],
      ": to breed vermin":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin verminatus , past participle of verminare to have worms, from vermis worm":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "usually -\u0101t+V",
      "-m\u0259\u02ccn\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134415",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "vernacular":{
    "antonyms":[
      "bookish",
      "formal",
      "learned",
      "literary"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a common name of a plant or animal as distinguished from the Latin nomenclature of scientific classification : a vernacular name of a plant or animal":[],
      ": a vernacular language, expression, or mode of expression : an expression or mode of expression that occurs in ordinary speech rather than formal writing":[],
      ": applied to a plant or animal in the common native speech as distinguished from the Latin nomenclature of scientific classification":[
        "the vernacular name"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place, region, or country":[],
      ": of, relating to, or being the normal spoken form of a language":[],
      ": the mode of expression of a group or class":[],
      ": using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adjective",
      "While there are American operas galore, some of which are quite good indeed, there is no vernacular opera tradition in America\u2014instead, we have musical comedy\u2014and now that supertitles have become standard equipment at major American opera houses, the chances that those houses will start regularly performing foreign-language operas in English translation have dropped from slim to none. \u2014 Terry Teachout , New York Times Book Review , 9 Nov. 1997",
      "Native crafts, the use of local materials, and vernacular buildings were considered integral to each country's heritage, and their preservation and revival became part of the movement to forge a strong national identity. \u2014 Wendy Kaplan , Antiques , October 1995",
      "For the proliferation of rich vernacular literatures in the twelfth century secured the place of the vulgar tongues in European society, and this entrenchment of the vernacular tongues made the European peoples more conscious of being separated from each other; decreased the cosmopolitan attitudes of the European nobility; and encouraged xenophobia, which became common in the thirteenth century. \u2014 Norman F. Cantor , The Civilization of the Middle Ages , 1993",
      "Hurricanes, fires and economic development unfortunately have caused many examples of both vernacular and more classical architecture to disappear over the years. \u2014 Suzanne Stephens , Architectural Digest , 1 Aug. 1990",
      "the vernacular architecture of the region",
      "writes essays in a very easy-to-read, vernacular style",
      "Noun",
      "But ask baseball people about [Michael] Young, and they'll admiringly tell you that he is a \"grinder,\" vernacular for a player who works his butt off. \u2014 Chris Ballard , Sports Illustrated , 8 May 2006",
      "\u2026 the sources for [Cole] Porter's chromaticism and syncopation are the vernacular of black music in America. \u2014 Stephen Brown , Times Literary Supplement , 21 Jan. 2005",
      "For Lu Xun helped revolutionize Chinese writing, tugging the written language toward the vernacular so that it was easier to learn, and he even endorsed the heresy of abandoning Chinese characters for the Roman alphabet so that literacy could spread more easily. \u2014 Amy Hempel , New York Times Book Review , 19 Aug. 1990",
      "New Mexico is not the easiest region in the country for an architect to establish a practice in. It is not that the area is indifferent to architecture\u2014it is more that the traditional south-western architectural vernacular is so awe-inspiring that it tends to overwhelm most efforts to create a credible personal voice. \u2014 Paul Goldberger , Architectural Digest , October 1986",
      "What was required was a vagrant and a visionary, a man of mystic recklessness. The man who dared point the way would have to use the vernacular , and not speak but shriek. Paracelsus (1493\u20131541) was suspect in his day, and never lost his reputation as a charlatan. \u2014 Daniel J. Boorstin , The Discoverers , 1983",
      "He spoke in the vernacular of an urban teenager.",
      "phrases that occur in the common vernacular",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "As one of the all-time great pop singers, Van Morrison uses vernacular to express himself and touch the deepest part of his listeners. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 25 May 2022",
      "More regional and vernacular ideas were taking hold, along with postmodernism. \u2014 Philip Kennicott, Washington Post , 17 May 2022",
      "Almost all the designers who have done so have talked about the language of American sportswear, about something almost vernacular . \u2014 Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "They are expressed by corrugated metal cladding and broad horizontal overhangs for shade, natural ventilation and rain protection, which recall vernacular rubber factories, thereby hinting at the site\u2019s history as a former rubber plantation. \u2014 Y-jean Mun-delsalle, Forbes , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "One of Miko\u0142aj Grynberg\u2019s vernacular short stories, each a snapshot of Jewish life in today\u2019s Poland, takes the form of a standup act, a string of bitter gags. \u2014 Boyd Tonkin, WSJ , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Architecturally, the Winters-Wimberley House is an important vernacular resource associated with Central Texas\u2019s frontier and early settlement periods, according to the National Register of Historic Places application. \u2014 Timothy Fanning, San Antonio Express-News , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "That visceral, vernacular play, about a cabdrivers\u2019 union, set a new bar for American theatrical realism. \u2014 Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "Gonzales-Day has spent years gathering vernacular images of Latinos in Southern California in the period that spans the 1850s to the 1950s. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 15 Jan. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Each function uses different vernacular , which makes regular and ongoing communication difficult. \u2014 Kelly Kubicek, Forbes , 17 May 2022",
      "The brothers wanted to translate the Gospels into the Slavic vernacular , but found the Greek and Latin alphabets unsuitable. \u2014 Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor , 25 Apr. 2022",
      "Still, in other ways the process had her step slightly outside of her usual vernacular \u2014figuration, namely. \u2014 Marley Marius, Vogue , 24 Feb. 2022",
      "One of the rare legal phrases that has seeped into the common vernacular and that\u2019s uttered like a reassuring totem: Some things in this democracy are certain. \u2014 Washington Post , 9 Feb. 2022",
      "The biggest obstacle for the show was how to transform Mandel\u2019s detached yet loving tone into a visual vernacular . \u2014 Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "Words such as vulnerability, kindness, empathy, and psychological safety are becoming commonplace in the daily business vernacular . \u2014 Jonathan Kaufman, Forbes , 6 May 2022",
      "The emphasis is on the right character, because this historical drama with a fair share of contemporary vernacular is centered around Isabelle Arc of France in the early 1400s. \u2014 David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "With buzzwords like Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, NFT and the metaverse becoming part of everyday vernacular , everyone from major corporations to entrepreneurs to the general public is starting to take notice. \u2014 Shivani Vora, Forbes , 19 Mar. 2022"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1601, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective",
      "1661, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin vern\u0101culus \"belonging to the household, domestic, native\" (from verna \"slave born in the household\"\u2014of uncertain origin\u2014 + -\u0101culus , perhaps originally diminutive suffix, though derivation is unclear) + -ar":"Adjective",
      "noun derivative of vernacular entry 1":"Noun"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259r-\u02c8na-ky\u0259-l\u0259r",
      "v\u0259-"
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    "synonyms":[
      "colloquial",
      "conversational",
      "informal",
      "nonformal",
      "nonliterary",
      "unbookish",
      "unliterary",
      "vulgar"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175112",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
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  "versatile":{
    "antonyms":[],
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      ": capable of moving laterally and up and down":[
        "versatile antennae"
      ],
      ": capable of turning forward or backward : reversible":[
        "a versatile toe of a bird"
      ],
      ": changing or fluctuating readily : variable":[
        "a versatile disposition"
      ],
      ": having many uses or applications":[
        "versatile building material"
      ],
      ": having the filaments attached at or near the middle so as to swing freely":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Horses stand apart because of their versatile roles in human society, which came to include dairy production, transportation, haulage, plowing, sports, warfare, religion, and status. \u2014 Sandra L. Olsen , Natural History , May 2008",
      "Linemen have to be nimble, corners physical and linebackers versatile . \u2014 Peter King , Sports Illustrated , 22 Dec. 2008",
      "Adobos are the Philippines' most beloved, and most versatile , dishes. They consist of meat, poultry, fish, or vegetables (such as okra and eggplant) slow-cooked in an aromatic broth of vinegar or coconut milk, garlic, black pepper, bay leaves, and, sometimes, soy sauce until virtually all the liquid has evaporated. \u2014 Amy Besa , Saveur , December 2008",
      "This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to three scientists for their work on a versatile strategy for synthesizing all manner of novel chemical compounds in an environmentally friendly way. \u2026 The three scientists focused on a reaction called metathesis \u2026 \u2014 A. Cunningham , Science News , 15 Oct. 2005",
      "Within weeks [Gerd] Binnig, then 38 and with an infant daughter, worked with a colleague to build a prototype for what has become one of the most versatile scientific tools ever created: the atomic force microscope, or AFM. \u2014 Ivan Amato , Fortune , 14 June 2004",
      "She is a versatile athlete who participates in many different sports.",
      "A pocketknife is a versatile tool.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "At 6-6 with a 7-1 wingspan, Beauchamp has the size and talent to contribute immediately as a versatile defender who can guard multiple positions on the wing, as well as bigger players down low. \u2014 Matt Eppers, USA TODAY , 23 June 2022",
      "The all-weather mats are versatile and can be kept on your front porch or stored in your garage, laundry room, or kitchen. \u2014 Nicol Natale, PEOPLE.com , 22 June 2022",
      "Beauchamp is one of the bigger projects in the first round, a versatile defender, standing at 6-6 with a 7-foot wingspan who brings exceptional athleticism. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 20 June 2022",
      "But the popular snack nut is extremely versatile and can be used in everything from pesto to cookies. \u2014 Stefani Sassos, Ms, Rdn, Cso, Cdn, Nasm-cpt, Good Housekeeping , 16 June 2022",
      "Middleton is an extremely versatile defender and a very impressive three-level scorer. \u2014 Shreyas Laddha, Hartford Courant , 10 May 2022",
      "Except Young has proven to be a versatile defender capable of guarding players of all shapes and sizes. \u2014 Stephen Means, cleveland , 19 Mar. 2022",
      "Wisconsin\u2019s junior forward, arguably the team\u2019s most versatile defender, had 16 steals in his first 17 games. \u2014 Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "The possibility Primo might also develop into a versatile defender able to guard all over the floor also was part of the equation. \u2014 Jeff Mcdonald, San Antonio Express-News , 11 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1605, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin vers\u0101tilis \"able to turn, operated by turning, capable of turning to different tasks,\" from vers\u0101re \"to keep turning\" (frequentative of vertere \"to turn\") + -tilis , suffix with the sense \"characterized by, obtained by\" \u2014 more at worth entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "especially British -\u02cct\u012b(-\u0259)l",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-s\u0259-t\u1d4al"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "adaptable",
      "all-around",
      "all-round",
      "protean",
      "universal"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-193852",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
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    "antonyms":[],
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      ": a body of metrical writing (as of a period or country)":[],
      ": a line of metrical writing":[],
      ": metrical language":[],
      ": metrical writing distinguished from poetry especially by its lower level of intensity":[],
      ": one of the short divisions into which a chapter of the Bible is traditionally divided":[],
      ": poem":[],
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      ": stanza sense 1":[],
      ": to make verse : versify":[],
      ": to tell or celebrate in verse":[],
      ": to turn into verse":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Noun",
      "The epic tale was written in verse .",
      "The second verse is sung the same way as the first.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Youngboy NBA then jumps in with an equally fiery verse . \u2014 Tom\u00e1s Mier, Rolling Stone , 24 June 2022",
      "Sapphire, who got her start as a slam poet, makes a point of including Precious\u2019s verse from her time in the literacy program at the school. \u2014 Alice Mcdermott, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Amanda Gorman posted a simple, but powerful verse to social media on Sunday. \u2014 Amy Haneline, USA TODAY , 20 June 2022",
      "This verse is a stark reminder that God is everywhere. \u2014 Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day , 10 June 2022",
      "Telling their story in first-person verse poems, Zoboi and Salaam take us into the heart of Amal\u2019s pain and anger. \u2014 Deborah Taylor, Washington Post , 26 May 2022",
      "With each of these exercises, Laico isn't performing for a specific number of reps, but rather for a specific amount of time, switching to the next move with each verse of the song. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 16 May 2022",
      "The units included genres such as science fiction, graphic novels, verse novels and story collections. \u2014 cleveland , 13 May 2022",
      "But medieval Muslim scholars who interpreted the Quran didn\u2019t understand this verse in such liberal terms. \u2014 Mustafa Akyol, WSJ , 12 May 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":"Verb",
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vers, fers , in part borrowed from Anglo-French vers, verse in part going back to Old English fers , both borrowed from Latin versus \"furrow, measure of land, row, line, line of writing, line of metrical writing,\" action noun derived from vertere \"to cause to turn, rotate,\" \u2014 more at worth entry 1":"Noun",
      "Middle English versen , in part verbal derivative of vers, fers verse entry 1 in part going back to Old English fersian \"to versify,\" verbal derivative of fers verse entry 1":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rs"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "lyric",
      "poem",
      "rune",
      "song"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203852",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "verse anthem":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an anthem in use in the English Church for solo voices or having a passage for solo voices \u2014 compare full anthem":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verse entry 1":""
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-032523",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verse service":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a service in the English Church sung by solo voices":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065910",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verse-speaking choir":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a group organized for the choral speaking of poetry":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-090041",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "versecraft":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": the art or practice of writing verse":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-030341",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "versed":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": having knowledge gained by close association, study, or experience":[
        "\u2014 usually + in an attorney well versed in corporate law [=an attorney who is knowledgeable about corporate law] At these points Dr Shepherd seemed very much the newcomer, not yet versed in the institution's codes \u2026 \u2014 Helen Garner \u2026 an eminent naturalist, a gentleman most completely versed in the knowledge of rocks and minerals \u2026 \u2014 Anthony Trollope Clive used to say that to be a successful moth hunter you need not be a specialist, but many specialists: a biologist, a botanist, a chemist, an ecologist, a meteorologist \u2026\u2014and well versed in Latin. \u2014 Poppy Adams"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1563, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rst"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-031857",
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ]
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  "versed sine":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": 1 minus the cosine of an angle":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "versed from New Latin vers us turned (from past participle of Latin vertere to turn) + English -ed":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054451",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verselet":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a little verse":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-065326",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verseman":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a maker of verses : versifier":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-171304",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "versemonger":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": poetaster":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verse entry 1 + monger":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-050706",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verser":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": versifier":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rs\u0259r",
      "\u02c8v\u0259\u0304s\u0259(r",
      "\u02c8v\u0259is\u0259(r"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-182413",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "versesmith":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": versifier":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "verse entry 1 + smith":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-011654",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verset":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a short verse especially from a sacred book (such as the Koran)":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, diminutive of vers verse entry 1":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccset",
      "\u02ccv\u0259r-\u02c8set",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-s\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-112358",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "version":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a condition in which an organ and especially the uterus is turned from its normal position":[],
      ": a form or variant of a type or original":[
        "an experimental version of the airplane"
      ],
      ": an account or description from a particular point of view especially as contrasted with another account":[],
      ": an adaptation of a literary work":[
        "the movie version of the novel"
      ],
      ": an arrangement of a musical composition":[],
      ": manual turning of a fetus in the uterus to aid delivery":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Let me tell you my version of what happened.",
      "We heard two different versions of the story.",
      "A new version of the word processing program should be available soon.",
      "I have an older version of the software.",
      "This new design is better than the first version .",
      "A film version of the novel is being made.",
      "the King James Version of the Bible",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Cheney pointedly suggested that anyone who was denying Hutchinson's version of events testify before the committee under oath as well. \u2014 Amy B Wang, BostonGlobe.com , 4 July 2022",
      "In September, Apple is expected to announce a more affordable version of the iPhone 14 Pro Max, which was widely assumed to be called the 'iPhone 14 Max'. \u2014 Gordon Kelly, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "Cheney pointedly suggested that anyone who was denying Hutchinson\u2019s version of events testify before the committee under oath as well. \u2014 Amy B Wang, Washington Post , 3 July 2022",
      "Trying to deduce the next steps in this summer\u2019s version of College Football Bingo has become a full-time obsession around the country ever since the news broke last week that USC and UCLA were bolting the Pac-12 for the Big Ten in 2025. \u2014 Mark Faller, The Arizona Republic , 3 July 2022",
      "But finding a truly decent version elsewhere can prove challenging. \u2014 Helen Rosner, The New Yorker , 3 July 2022",
      "As its name suggests, the NuFace Mini Facial Toning Device Set contains a miniature version of the Allure Best of Beauty-winning device. \u2014 Jennifer Hussein, Allure , 3 July 2022",
      "It\u2019s about how fathers can pass their trauma, generationally, to their children, especially this toxic masculinity of policing that their boys have to be society\u2019s version of masculine. \u2014 Jennifer Maas, Variety , 2 July 2022",
      "So far, so good, until Hollywood hired Trisha Yearwood to record another version . \u2014 Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com , 2 July 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1582, in the meaning defined at sense 3":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French, from Medieval Latin version-, versio act of turning, change, from Latin vertere to turn \u2014 more at worth":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-zh\u0259n",
      "-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "account",
      "interpretation",
      "performance",
      "reading",
      "rendition"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-102532",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vert russe":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": russian green":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6ver\u00a6r\u00fcs"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-175802",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vertebral column":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": spinal column":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "carefully reconstructed the vertebral column of the dinosaur",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The vertebral column would still present an obstacle to removing the lungs, and the primary bronchi and pulmonary veins and arteries aren't long enough to allow the lungs to be removed while they are still attached. \u2014 Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica , 10 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "backbone",
      "chine",
      "spinal column",
      "spine"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-103934",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vertical":{
    "antonyms":[
      "flat",
      "recumbent"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": located at right angles to the plane of a supporting surface":[],
      ": lying in the direction of an axis : lengthwise":[],
      ": of, relating to, or comprising persons of different status":[
        "the vertical arrangement of society"
      ],
      ": perpendicular to the plane of the horizon or to a primary axis : upright":[],
      ": relating to or being transmission (as of a disease) by genetic inheritance or by a congenital or perinatal route":[
        "vertical inheritance",
        "\u2026 decreasing the rate of vertical transmission of HIV to the fetus by two-thirds, so that the numbers of children with the condition are diminishing.",
        "\u2014 Cynthia B. Cohen"
      ],
      ": relating to, involving, or integrating economic activity from basic production to point of sale":[
        "a vertical monopoly"
      ],
      ": situated at the highest point : directly overhead or in the zenith":[],
      ": taken with the camera pointing straight down or nearly so":[],
      "\u2014 compare horizontal sense 3":[
        "vertical inheritance",
        "\u2026 decreasing the rate of vertical transmission of HIV to the fetus by two-thirds, so that the numbers of children with the condition are diminishing.",
        "\u2014 Cynthia B. Cohen"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a shirt with vertical stripes",
      "the vertical axis of a graph",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The beds are longer than typical bunks with more vertical space for sitting up and playing board games. \u2014 Hadley Mendelsohn, House Beautiful , 23 June 2022",
      "Hanging shelves, wall hooks, over-the-door hangers and wall organizers, for example, are excellent ways to make use of vertical space. \u2014 Vaishnavi Nayel Talawadekar, Washington Post , 16 June 2022",
      "Combine leading all defensive linemen in the 40-yard dash (4.63), vertical jump (38 inches) and broad jump (10-0). \u2014 Rob Reischel, Forbes , 9 June 2022",
      "At the 2019 Opening finals, Decambra had a 39.8-inch vertical jump and ran the 40 in 4.53 seconds. \u2014 James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive , 30 May 2022",
      "Verdell ran the 40-yard dash in a pedestrian 4.65 seconds and reached just 31 inches on the vertical jump. \u2014 Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star , 16 May 2022",
      "The size gives you enough horizontal space for multiple shelves and, at 8 feet tall, enough vertical space for extra-tall plants. \u2014 Rachel Center, Better Homes & Gardens , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "But more customers are embracing options with additional vertical space, citing a nostalgia for screens of the past and more length to display long articles, spreadsheets, and such as marked improvements. \u2014 Scharon Harding, Ars Technica , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "Basically, every vertical space on the set is a high-definition LED wall which allows the production teams to change the background instantaneously. \u2014 Rachel Schonberger, EW.com , 22 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1559, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin verticalis , from Latin vertic-, vertex":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rt-i-k\u0259l",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-ti-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vertical vertical , perpendicular , plumb mean being at right angles to a base line. vertical suggests a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith. the side of the cliff is almost vertical perpendicular may stress the straightness of a line making a right angle with any other line, not necessarily a horizontal one. the parallel bars are perpendicular to the support posts plumb stresses an exact verticality determined (as with a plumb line) by earth's gravity. make sure that the wall is plumb",
    "synonyms":[
      "erect",
      "perpendicular",
      "plumb",
      "raised",
      "stand-up",
      "standing",
      "upright",
      "upstanding"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-172611",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verticilliose":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verticilliosis":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary verticilli- + -ose":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259rt\u0259\u02c8sil\u0113\u02cc\u014ds"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-115617",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verticilliosis":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a wilt disease of various plants caused by soil-borne fungi of the genus Verticillium":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from verticilli- + osis":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-180753",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verticillium":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fungus of the genus Verticillium":[],
      ": a genus of imperfect fungi (order Moniliales) having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets and including several that cause destructive wilts in plants \u2014 see verticilliosis":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from verticill-":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-075933",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verticillium wilt":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a wilt disease of various plants that is caused by a soil-borne imperfect fungus (genus Verticillium )":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Avoid gardening under a Japanese maple, as damage to the roots can be an entry point for verticillium wilt . \u2014 oregonlive , 16 Apr. 2022",
      "Here\u2019s a link to an Iowa State University Extension publication on verticillium wilt , which will give you more information. \u2014 oregonlive , 17 Oct. 2021",
      "For example, catalpa trees, viburnum shrubs and strawberry plants are all susceptible to the fungal disease called verticillium wilt . \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 19 Sep. 2021",
      "Unfortunately, a sudden die-back does often indicate verticillium wilt , a disease of the vascular system. \u2014 oregonlive , 31 July 2021",
      "Near the coast, late blight (LB) and verticillium wilt (V) are common. \u2014 Pam Peirce, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Apr. 2021",
      "But one by one, suspects ( verticillium wilt , bacteria, root rot, beetles, blight, leaf hoppers) were crossed off the list. \u2014 Craig Sailor, The Seattle Times , 10 Sep. 2018",
      "Some diseases, such as verticillium wilt and Dutch elm disease, interfere with the flow of water within a tree\u2019s trunk and branches, cutting off the water supply to the leaves and leading to leaf scorch. \u2014 Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com , 11 July 2018",
      "Similarly, verticillium wilt is caused by a soil fungus and affects the movement of water through a plant. \u2014 Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com , 11 Sep. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1916, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin Verticillium , from verticillus":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259r-t\u0259-\u02c8si-l\u0113-\u0259m-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-025246",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verticity":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a tendency (as shown by a magnetized needle) to turn toward a magnetic pole":[
        "the old window stanchions had become magnetic, proving, as he thinks, that iron acquires verticity",
        "\u2014 Walter Pater"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin verticitat-, verticitas , from Latin vertic-, vertex highest point, peak + -itat-, -itas -ity":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259r\u02c8tis\u0259t\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-061849",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vertiginate":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to whirl dizzily around : twirl":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Late Latin vertiginatus , past participle of vertiginare to whirl around, from Latin vertigin-, vertigo action of whirling":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259r\u02c8tij\u0259\u02ccn\u0101t"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-173316",
    "type":[
      "intransitive verb"
    ]
  },
  "vertiginous":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": causing or tending to cause dizziness":[
        "the vertiginous heights"
      ],
      ": characterized by or suffering from vertigo or dizziness":[],
      ": inclined to frequent and often pointless change : inconstant":[],
      ": marked by turning : rotary":[
        "the vertiginous motion of the earth"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "a 3-D effect that is likely to leave some audience members feeling vertiginous",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Gore Vidal used to gripe that every morning a tourist boat would pass below his cliff-hugging villa on the turquoise waters of the Gulf of Salerno\u2014a vertiginous one thousand feet below, to be exact. \u2014 Christopher Bollen, Town & Country , 8 June 2022",
      "The video of the show from its 2017 Glyndebourne debut was gripping, a vertiginous journey inside the protagonist\u2019s disintegrating mind. \u2014 Heidi Waleson, WSJ , 18 May 2022",
      "Some popular spots \u2014 including the vertiginous Angels Landing hiking trail and trek-able Virgin River Narrows \u2014 can be reached via free shuttle buses that whir through Zion Canyon each day, typically from March through November. \u2014 Washington Post , 16 Mar. 2022",
      "Some popular spots \u2014 including the vertiginous Angels Landing hiking trail and trek-able Virgin River Narrows \u2014 can be reached via free shuttle buses that whir through Zion Canyon each day, typically from March through November. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 8 May 2022",
      "Even for a country accustomed to political turmoil, Mr. Sunak\u2019s fall has been vertiginous . \u2014 New York Times , 10 Apr. 2022",
      "Lyonne literally elevated the look with a pair of vertiginous black platform sandals. \u2014 Liana Satenstein, Vogue , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "The speed, the vertiginous rhythm with which entertainment is consumed must be considered when making adaptations. \u2014 Emiliano Granada, Variety , 6 Apr. 2022",
      "Zion Canyon is home to peregrine falcons and, as of recently, a pair of California condors who chose to start a family on the vertiginous cliffs below Angels Landing. \u2014 Shawnt\u00e9 Salabert, Outside Online , 19 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1608, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin vertiginosus , from vertigin-, vertigo":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8ti-j\u0259-n\u0259s",
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8tij-\u0259-n\u0259s"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "aswoon",
      "dizzy",
      "giddy",
      "light-headed",
      "reeling",
      "swimmy",
      "whirling",
      "woozy"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-071607",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "vertigo":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a dizzy confused state of mind":[],
      ": a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 27-year-old, an All-Star in 2019, couldn't play because of vertigo . \u2014 Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press , 11 June 2022",
      "People can also experience ear pain, hearing loss, a ringing sensation in the ears, vertigo and difficulty closing one eye. \u2014 Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY , 10 June 2022",
      "Other side effects include hearing loss, severe vertigo and rashes or blisters that occur on the ear or cheek. \u2014 Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
      "That kingmaking ritual underground, between father and son, is a breathtaking feat of conceptual vertigo , a cascade of attractively nightmarish visions slipping down in front of our eyes like a reel of images. \u2014 K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Symptoms have included headaches, dizziness, cognitive difficulties, tinnitus, vertigo and trouble with seeing, hearing, or balancing. \u2014 Conor Finnegan, ABC News , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Scrolling on her phone caused vertigo , blurriness and disorientation. \u2014 Ariana Eunjung Cha, Anchorage Daily News , 19 Apr. 2022",
      "Situated at the base of Barron Mountain, Alpine Adventure\u2019s winter zipline tour is a real vertigo -inducing zinger. \u2014 Allison Tibaldi, USA TODAY , 1 Mar. 2022",
      "The medication trimetazidine is a metabolic agent that helps prevent angina attacks and treats the symptoms of vertigo , according to the European Union\u2019s medicines agency. \u2014 Graham Dunbar, ajc , 10 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Latin vertigin-, vertigo , from vertere to turn":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rt-i-\u02ccg\u014d",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-ti-\u02ccg\u014d"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-002941",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verting":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":[
      "Definition of verting present participle of vert"
    ],
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":[],
    "history_and_etymology":[],
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220629-210543",
    "type":[]
  },
  "vertu":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a love of or taste for curios or objets d'art":[],
      ": productions of art especially of a curious or antique nature : objets d'art":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccver-",
      "\u02ccv\u0259r-"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-165701",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vervain":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of a genus ( Verbena of the family Verbenaceae, the vervain family) of chiefly American plants having bracted spicate flowers, a corolla with a 5-lobed limb, and a fruit that separates into four nutlets":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Joe-Pye weed, boneset and blue vervain bloom nicely in wetlands. \u2014 Star Tribune , 29 July 2021",
      "Blue vervain has been a really powerful ally for friends on the frontlines, especially for organizers. \u2014 Aliza Abarbanel, Bon App\u00e9tit , 6 Aug. 2020",
      "Wildflowers and shady pines (Photo: Mare Czinar/Special for The Republic) Watch for swarms of butterflies and bees drawing nectar from Butter and Eggs flowers, New Mexican vervain and field bindweed blooms. \u2014 Mare Czinar, azcentral , 5 July 2018",
      "In the garden, blue vervain plants attract butterflies, bumblebees and other pollinators. \u2014 cleveland.com , 16 May 2017",
      "Sun: Full Soil moisture: Average to moist Height: Four to six feet Deer resistant: Yes Comments: Blue vervain is a traditional medicinal herb, with the roots, leaves or flowers used to treat conditions. \u2014 cleveland.com , 16 May 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verveine \"the plant Verbena officinalis ,\" borrowed from Anglo-French vervenne, verveyne , going back to Latin verb\u0113na \"leafy branch used ceremonially or medicinally,\" going back to *verbes-na , derivative of an s-stem noun *verbes- , whence Latin verbera (plural) \"bundle of sticks used for flogging, blows\"; akin to Croatian & Serbian v\u0155ba \"willow,\" Lithuanian virbas \"twig, rod\"":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-\u02ccv\u0101n"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-015956",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "vervain family":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": verbenaceae":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-134911",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verve":{
    "antonyms":[
      "lethargy",
      "listlessness",
      "sluggishness",
      "torpidity"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": energy , vitality":[],
      ": special ability or talent":[],
      ": the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "She played with skill and verve .",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The near-miss irony of these coincidences lends the film a frantic, tragicomic verve . \u2014 Richard Brody, The New Yorker , 10 June 2022",
      "Beautiful fruit flavors\u2014white peach on top of the citrus and tropicals\u2014are carried with verve , tension and structure. \u2014 Sara L. Schneider, Robb Report , 14 Feb. 2022",
      "On opening night, a young student named Audrey Portner imbued the role of Marie with exceptional grace, verve , and light, flowing gestures. \u2014 Washington Post , 25 Nov. 2021",
      "You might be tempted to go with the hamachi or the scallop\u2014both are plated with enough sculptural verve to evoke the restaurant\u2019s namesake mollusk\u2014but the frog leg is where your voyage should start. \u2014 Jiayang Fan, The New Yorker , 10 June 2022",
      "This debut collection explores and celebrates uncertain and transitory moments of gender identity with humor and verve . \u2014 New York Times , 25 May 2022",
      "Opiangah\u2019s canvas towers towards the high ceilings as Chance raps with Biblical imagery and personal verve . \u2014 Mankaprr Conteh, Rolling Stone , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "Artist Faye Weiwei gave youthful verve in an ice blue Miu Miu party frock. \u2014 Vogue , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Tens of thousands of workers shifted much of downtown San Francisco\u2019s entrepreneurial verve north from SoMa and west from the financial district. \u2014 J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle , 2 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1697, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, from Middle French, caprice, from Old French, word, gossip, from Vulgar Latin *verva , from Latin verba , plural of verbum word \u2014 more at word":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rv"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "beans",
      "bounce",
      "brio",
      "dash",
      "drive",
      "dynamism",
      "energy",
      "esprit",
      "gas",
      "get-up-and-go",
      "ginger",
      "go",
      "gusto",
      "hardihood",
      "juice",
      "life",
      "moxie",
      "oomph",
      "pep",
      "punch",
      "sap",
      "snap",
      "starch",
      "vigor",
      "vim",
      "vinegar",
      "vitality",
      "zing",
      "zip"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-062922",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "very":{
    "antonyms":[
      "identical",
      "same",
      "selfsame"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": absolute , utter":[
        "the veriest fool alive"
      ],
      ": actual , real":[
        "the very blood and bone of our grammar",
        "\u2014 H. L. Smith \u20201972"
      ],
      ": being the same one : selfsame":[
        "the very man I saw"
      ],
      ": exact , precise":[
        "the very heart of the city"
      ],
      ": exactly suitable or necessary":[
        "the very thing for the purpose"
      ],
      ": in actual fact : truly":[
        "the very best store in town",
        "told the very same story"
      ],
      ": mere , bare":[
        "the very thought terrified him"
      ],
      ": properly entitled to the name or designation : true":[
        "the fierce hatred of a very woman",
        "\u2014 J. M. Barrie"
      ],
      ": simple , plain":[
        "in very truth"
      ],
      ": special , particular":[
        "the very essence of truth is plainness and brightness",
        "\u2014 John Milton"
      ],
      ": to a high degree : exceedingly":[
        "very hot",
        "didn't hurt very much"
      ],
      ": unqualified , sheer":[
        "the very shame of it"
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Adverb",
      "that was a very brave thing to do",
      "the very same thing happened to me",
      "Adjective",
      "we stayed in the very hotel my parents stayed in for their honeymoon",
      "the very thought of having to go through that again is scary",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "Your story has been told in one very specific, strategically edited way. \u2014 Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter , 14 June 2022",
      "Now that its oncology portfolio has been partly written off by investors, there is very little to lose by sticking around. \u2014 David Wainer, WSJ , 14 June 2022",
      "These disparate parts agreed on very little, save for replacing Mr. Netanyahu and avoiding yet another election cycle after four largely inconclusive ballots between 2019 and 2021. \u2014 Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor , 14 June 2022",
      "Just 23 years old with very little experience in journalism, much less sifting through medical-ese under a time crunch, this young woman performed at not just an A level, but an A+ level. \u2014 Elizabeth Cohen, CNN , 13 June 2022",
      "By his own admission, Xan knew very little about the world. \u2014 Andr\u00e9 Alexis, The New Yorker , 13 June 2022",
      "Thirty-three bullets identifying different software programs, platforms and very specific competencies. \u2014 Pablo Listingart, Forbes , 10 June 2022",
      "In a conversation with Entertainment Weekly, Ryan O'Connell joked that, Cattrall has in some way been mothering him for a very long time. \u2014 Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com , 10 June 2022",
      "But for Meta investors, the 2030s seem a very long way off indeed. \u2014 Jonathan Vanian, Fortune , 10 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "One step ahead until the very end, Obi-Wan clearly lets the Sith Lord win. \u2014 Sydney Odman, The Hollywood Reporter , 22 June 2022",
      "And at the very end, Bob Dylan also strummed him a happy birthday on acoustic guitar. \u2014 Spin Staff, SPIN , 20 June 2022",
      "The leaderboard was an adventure on Sunday, with many of the world\u2019s finest players in the hunt until the very end. \u2014 Jason Mastrodonato, Hartford Courant , 20 June 2022",
      "An up-and-coming Brewers team was attempting to overtake the Cubs in the division \u2013two years after Chicago had won the World Series \u2013 and every game mattered as the race came down to the very end of the season. \u2014 Curt Hogg, Journal Sentinel , 18 June 2022",
      "An up-and-coming Brewers team was attempting to overtake the Cubs, who had won the World Series just two years prior, in the division, and every game mattered as the race came down to the very end of the season. \u2014 Curt Hogg, USA TODAY , 18 June 2022",
      "And then at the very end of the song, the whole song flips and those few notes now become the theme of the song. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 15 June 2022",
      "Perhaps that is fueling them at this very moment for another charge next season. \u2014 Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel , 12 June 2022",
      "Texas, which posted 18 come-from-behind victories this season, kept fighting until the very end, cutting into the lead on freshman Mia Scott\u2019s 3-run home run with 2 outs in the seventh. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 9 June 2022"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 7a":"Adjective",
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":"Adverb"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English verray, verry , from Anglo-French verai , from Vulgar Latin *veracus , alteration of Latin verac-, verax truthful, from verus true; akin to Old English w\u01e3r true, Old High German w\u0101ra trust, care, Greek \u0113ra (accusative) favor":"Adjective"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ve-r\u0113",
      "\u02c8ver-\u0113"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for very Adjective same , selfsame , very , identical , equivalent , equal mean not different or not differing from one another. same may imply and selfsame always implies that the things under consideration are one thing and not two or more things. took the same route derived from the selfsame source very , like selfsame , may imply identity, or, like same may imply likeness in kind. the very point I was trying to make identical may imply selfsameness or suggest absolute agreement in all details. identical results equivalent implies amounting to the same thing in worth or significance. two houses equivalent in market value equal implies being identical in value, magnitude, or some specified quality. equal shares in the business",
    "synonyms":[
      "achingly",
      "almighty",
      "archly",
      "awful",
      "awfully",
      "badly",
      "beastly",
      "blisteringly",
      "bone",
      "colossally",
      "corking",
      "cracking",
      "damn",
      "damned",
      "dang",
      "deadly",
      "desperately",
      "eminently",
      "enormously",
      "especially",
      "ever",
      "exceedingly",
      "exceeding",
      "extra",
      "extremely",
      "fabulously",
      "fantastically",
      "far",
      "fiercely",
      "filthy",
      "frightfully",
      "full",
      "greatly",
      "heavily",
      "highly",
      "hugely",
      "immensely",
      "incredibly",
      "intensely",
      "jolly",
      "majorly",
      "mightily",
      "mighty",
      "monstrous",
      "mortally",
      "most",
      "much",
      "particularly",
      "passing",
      "rattling",
      "real",
      "really",
      "right",
      "roaring",
      "roaringly",
      "seriously",
      "severely",
      "so",
      "sore",
      "sorely",
      "spanking",
      "specially",
      "stinking",
      "such",
      "super",
      "supremely",
      "surpassingly",
      "terribly",
      "that",
      "thumping",
      "too",
      "unco",
      "uncommonly",
      "vastly",
      "vitally",
      "way",
      "whacking",
      "wicked",
      "wildly"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220706-191459",
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "very high frequency":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": a radio frequency between ultrahigh frequency and high frequency \u2014 see Radio Frequencies Table":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Shortwave radio bands are able travel long distances using very high frequencies , unlike traditional radio waves that need to travel in straight lines. \u2014 Hadas Gold, CNN , 16 Aug. 2019",
      "Most echolocation is at a very high frequency , and large ears amplify more low-frequency sounds, like rustling prey, says Aaron Corcoran, a National Geographic Explorer and research assistant professor at Wake Forest University. \u2014 Liz Langley, National Geographic , 12 Apr. 2019",
      "In one step, this has opened up an entirely new way to generate very high frequency microwave data transmitters. \u2014 Chris Lee, Ars Technica , 9 May 2018",
      "For viewers without cable, a national transition to digital television, completed in 2009, resolved the reception disparity between ultra high frequency (UHF) channels, 14-83, and very high frequency (VHF) channels, 2-13. \u2014 Callum Borchers, Washington Post , 4 Apr. 2018",
      "Standard recording equipment may not pick up very low or very high frequencies . \u2014 Beth Mole, Ars Technica , 12 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1920, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-112144",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "verbal noun":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a noun derived directly from a verb or verb stem and in some uses having the sense and constructions of a verb":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1652, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143321"
  },
  "vertebral body":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the thick, cylindrical, anterior part of a vertebra that bears the weight of the head and trunk, is attached to and articulates with an adjacent vertebral body by an intervertebral disk , and encloses the front part of the vertebral foramen":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1819, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-143950"
  },
  "verbal note":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an unsigned diplomatic memorandum serving as an informal reminder of an unanswered question or request":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-145516"
  },
  "verbally":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in words : through or by the use of words":[
        "Yet it seems whenever somebody writes about him, Sheen gets verbally slugged for not driving around in some beat-up old Chevy.",
        "\u2014 Hal Rubenstein",
        "In Chapter 1 \u2026 Burge explains verbally , formally, and symbolically the system of notations to be used in the book.",
        "\u2014 Datamation"
      ],
      ": in spoken rather than written words":[
        "In the centuries before the Magna Carta, agreements were made and kept verbally .",
        "\u2014 Janeen R. Adil",
        "\u2026 John's will was not a written will. It was a nuncupative will, which means on his deathbed, John verbally told persons how he wanted his estate divided or dispensed.",
        "\u2014 Sharon Tate Moody",
        "\u2026 is intended to express, whether verbally or in writing, or in any other way, the real process of thought.",
        "\u2014 Trewin Copplestone",
        "Although some prospects arrive at these football factories verbally committed to a college, most are still free agents.",
        "\u2014 Bruce Feldman"
      ],
      ": with regard to words or language":[
        "Lessing has never been an elegant writer. At her better and best, she is cranky, \u2026 pleonastic, defensive, and verbally self-indulgent.",
        "\u2014 Susan Lardner",
        "Some toddlers walk early and talk late; others are verbally precocious but happily creep and crawl until the middle of the second year.",
        "\u2014 Susan Ochshorn"
      ],
      ": as a verb":[
        "a noun being used verbally"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-b\u0259-l\u0113"
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1571, in the meaning defined at sense 1b":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152621"
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  "vertex":{
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      "noun"
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      ": the top of the head":[],
      ": the point opposite to and farthest from the base in a figure":[],
      ": a point (as of an angle, polygon, polyhedron, graph, or network) that terminates a line or curve or comprises the intersection of two or more lines or curves":[],
      ": a point where an axis of an ellipse, parabola, or hyperbola intersects the curve itself":[],
      ": a principal or highest point : summit":[
        "the vertex of the hill"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-\u02ccteks"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "For each bit of information, draw a vertex (or node), called a digit node. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 24 Nov. 2021",
      "Initially, every vertex has the same probability of being open to the flow of water. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 July 2021",
      "But last week one of my students located the vertex of a parabola in a particularly elegant way. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 23 Sep. 2021",
      "Initially, every vertex has the same probability of being open to the flow of water. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 July 2021",
      "Initially, every vertex has the same probability of being open to the flow of water. \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 8 July 2021",
      "Initially, every vertex has the same probability of being open to the flow of water. \u2014 Allison Whitten, Wired , 11 July 2021",
      "For these quantum experiments, every path a photon takes is represented by a vertex . \u2014 Anil Ananthaswamy, Scientific American , 2 July 2021",
      "Standard graphs can only express relationships between pairs of things, like two friends in a social network (where each person is represented by a vertex ). \u2014 Quanta Magazine , 5 Apr. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, top of the head, from Latin vertic-, vertex, vortic-, vortex whirl, whirlpool, top of the head, summit, from vertere to turn":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-152937"
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    "type":[
      "idiom"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161557"
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      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the opening in a vertebra that is formed by a neural arch and back portion of a vertebral body and through which the spinal cord passes":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1828, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-161847"
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      "noun"
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      ": neural arch":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1827, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-165000"
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  "vertebral aponeurosis":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a fascia of the back separating the muscles that hold erect the spinal column and head from those that move the arm and shoulders and extending from the spinous processes to the angles of the ribs":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-174923"
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  "very occasionally":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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      ": not at all often : rarely":[
        "Very occasionally , she will have a glass of wine."
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-180145"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb",
      "noun"
    ],
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      ": perpendicular to the plane of the horizon or to a primary axis : upright":[],
      ": located at right angles to the plane of a supporting surface":[],
      ": lying in the direction of an axis : lengthwise":[],
      ": situated at the highest point : directly overhead or in the zenith":[],
      ": taken with the camera pointing straight down or nearly so":[],
      ": relating to, involving, or integrating economic activity from basic production to point of sale":[
        "a vertical monopoly"
      ],
      ": of, relating to, or comprising persons of different status":[
        "the vertical arrangement of society"
      ],
      ": relating to or being transmission (as of a disease) by genetic inheritance or by a congenital or perinatal route":[
        "vertical inheritance",
        "\u2026 decreasing the rate of vertical transmission of HIV to the fetus by two-thirds, so that the numbers of children with the condition are diminishing.",
        "\u2014 Cynthia B. Cohen"
      ],
      "\u2014 compare horizontal sense 3":[
        "vertical inheritance",
        "\u2026 decreasing the rate of vertical transmission of HIV to the fetus by two-thirds, so that the numbers of children with the condition are diminishing.",
        "\u2014 Cynthia B. Cohen"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rt-i-k\u0259l",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-ti-k\u0259l"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "erect",
      "perpendicular",
      "plumb",
      "raised",
      "stand-up",
      "standing",
      "upright",
      "upstanding"
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    "antonyms":[
      "flat",
      "recumbent"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for vertical vertical , perpendicular , plumb mean being at right angles to a base line. vertical suggests a line or direction rising straight upward toward a zenith. the side of the cliff is almost vertical perpendicular may stress the straightness of a line making a right angle with any other line, not necessarily a horizontal one. the parallel bars are perpendicular to the support posts plumb stresses an exact verticality determined (as with a plumb line) by earth's gravity. make sure that the wall is plumb",
    "examples":[
      "a shirt with vertical stripes",
      "the vertical axis of a graph",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Ronaldo is known for his explosive power, with a vertical jump of 30 inches, and so William uses this as one of the benchmarks of his training. \u2014 Philip Ellis, Men's Health , 15 May 2022",
      "While APIs require developers to integrate into existing systems, vertical SaaS platforms offer integration without developers. \u2014 Johannes Koeppel, Forbes , 2 May 2022",
      "The 6-3, 261-pound pass rusher ranked in the 90th percentile or better in the 40-yard dash (4.53 seconds), vertical jump (38 inches) and broad jump (10 feet, 5 inches), according to scouting database MockDraftable. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, Baltimore Sun , 27 Apr. 2022",
      "Thompson tested well, clocking a 4.40 in the 40-yard dash at the NFL combine then posting a 37.5-inch vertical jump at the Longhorns\u2019 pro day. \u2014 Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The 2022 Draft Experience is a football theme park with food and drink options, a 40-yard dash, a vertical jump against NFL players on LED screens, a Super Bowl rings display and live autograph sessions with current NFL players. \u2014 Emma Stein, Detroit Free Press , 29 Mar. 2022",
      "The players will have the opportunity to participate in the 40-yard dash, vertical jump, broad jump, three-cone drill, shuttle run, bench press and position skill drills. \u2014 Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "His 37-inch vertical jump was the fourth highest of the safeties who tested, and his 130-inch broad jump was the third best. \u2014 Jonas Shaffer, baltimoresun.com , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "Goodson was also tied for fourth in the vertical jump (36.5 inches) and eighth in the broad jump (123 inches). \u2014 Tim Bielik, cleveland , 5 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French, from Late Latin verticalis , from Latin vertic-, vertex":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1559, in the meaning defined at sense 2a":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185122"
  },
  "vertical circle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a great circle of the celestial sphere whose plane is perpendicular to that of the horizon \u2014 see azimuth illustration":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1559, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185440"
  },
  "vertebral canal":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": spinal canal":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1830, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-190041"
  },
  "verbal proposition":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a proposition in which the subject and predicate are only verbally different and which conveys no real information unless about the meaning of words":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-192827"
  },
  "vertical angle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": either of two angles lying on opposite sides of two intersecting lines":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Video captured by a local mining company showed the plane hurtling toward the ground at an almost completely vertical angle . \u2014 Washington Post , 22 Mar. 2022",
      "Racked by explosions, Kursk sank in 354 feet of water at a 20-degree vertical angle . \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Footage of the crash recorded at a local mining company on Monday showed the plane plummeting at nearly a vertical angle out of the sky. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Footage of the crash recorded at a local mining company Monday showed the plane plummeting at nearly a vertical angle out of the sky. \u2014 Eva Dou, Lyric Li And Vic Chiang, Anchorage Daily News , 23 Mar. 2022",
      "Racked by explosions, Kursk sank in 354 feet of water at a 20-degree vertical angle . \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Racked by explosions, Kursk sank in 354 feet of water at a 20-degree vertical angle . \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 11 Mar. 2022",
      "Twelve minutes later, the plane, run by the Indonesian airline Lion Air, plowed at a near- vertical angle into Jakarta Bay, traveling at 500 mph. \u2014 Washington Post , 17 Dec. 2021",
      "Doncic dribbled six times, then made a quick fake to his right, pivoted back left and unleashed a tear-drop fadeaway shot that swished through the net at an almost vertical angle . \u2014 Callie Caplan, Dallas News , 26 May 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1571, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-194032"
  },
  "vertical union":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": industrial union":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1933, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201858"
  },
  "vertical file":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a collection of articles (such as pamphlets and clippings) that is maintained (as in a library) to answer brief questions or to provide points of information not easily located":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1906, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-211606"
  },
  "verbatim":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": in the exact words : word for word":[
        "quoted the speech verbatim"
      ],
      ": being in or following the exact words : word-for-word":[
        "a verbatim report of the meeting"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8b\u0101-t\u0259m"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "ad verbum",
      "directly",
      "exactly",
      "word for word"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "inexactly"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Adverb",
      "The New York Times reported that recent posts lambasting legislation against Wal-Mart came verbatim from the retailer's p.r. firm. \u2014 Sally B. Donnelly et al. , Time , 20 Mar. 2006",
      "Some passages in the book are taken verbatim from the blog \u2026 \u2014 Publishers Weekly , 13 June 2005",
      "Around his eleventh year he compiled a sort of commonplace book in which he transcribed passages from his reading. \u2026 But these entries aren't rendered verbatim : [Arthur] Rimbaud expands and contracts his sources, plays with lines, exhibiting a very early, very organic sort of literary criticism. \u2014 Wyatt Mason , Harper's , October 2002",
      "\"My own anxieties about mortality are tempered just slightly,\" says [Ken] Burns (quoting, almost verbatim , his introduction to \"Jazz's\" companion coffee-table book), \"by the notion that if we continue to try hard, we'll have a chance to hear Louis blow Gabriel out of the clouds.\" \u2014 David Gates , Newsweek , 8 Jan. 2001",
      "you can't just copy the encyclopedia article verbatim for your report\u2014that's plagiarism",
      "Adjective",
      "Was Coleridge's \"Table Talk,\" as recorded by his circle, his words or theirs\u2014or a conflation of both",
      "Some readers may unfortunately be made mistrustful of the authors' findings by their attempts to enliven the book with unverifiable\u2014if inconsequential\u2014details about the settings of events and by occasionally presenting unrecorded conversations of four decades ago in the form of verbatim quotations. \u2014 Henry Ashby Turner , New York Times Book Review , 22 June 1986",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb",
      "The Enquirer's questions and were edited for clarity and brevity while Berhalter's responses are quoted verbatim . \u2014 Pat Brennan, The Enquirer , 30 May 2022",
      "These points appear to be drawn almost verbatim from a GOP talking-points memo on Jackson and CRT. \u2014 Matt Ford, The New Republic , 21 Mar. 2022",
      "But most of the definitions \u2014 thousands of them \u2014 were drawn verbatim from Entick. \u2014 Bryan A. Garner, National Review , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "On an American QAnon online radio show broadcast Monday, one host read verbatim from Russian state media reports about biolabs. \u2014 Donie O'sullivan, CNN , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "McDonough said the information was taken verbatim from the paperwork of another financial service. \u2014 John Caniglia, cleveland , 7 Mar. 2022",
      "Don\u2019t Look Up is satire (a brilliant one, in my estimation), but that part could have come verbatim out of the Defense Department\u2019s supply chain report. \u2014 Timothy Noah, The New Republic , 25 Feb. 2022",
      "Some of these office rules aren't exactly written verbatim but have become commonalities that everyone strives to implement. \u2014 Yec, Forbes , 20 Jan. 2022",
      "Van Dyck and his workshop painted several versions of this same Infanta portrait, which were copied nearly verbatim from earlier renderings by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, reports Jasmine Liu for Hyperallergic. \u2014 Nora Mcgreevy, Smithsonian Magazine , 13 Jan. 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "With the verbatim results of an average of 30 45-to-60-minute interviews in hand, our senior team reads every single word. \u2014 John Davies, Forbes , 24 June 2022",
      "Kruse\u2019s doctoral dissertation and books include passages (even verbatim ... \u2014 Abigail Anthony, National Review , 16 June 2022",
      "Yet many of those claims appeared verbatim in a resolution introduced in February by Mr. Finchem, the Arizona state representative, and sponsored by 13 fellow Republicans in the Legislature. \u2014 Nick Corasaniti, New York Times , 22 May 2022",
      "Yet, many of those claims appeared verbatim in a resolution introduced in February by Finchem, the Arizona state representative, and sponsored by 13 fellow Republicans in the Legislature. \u2014 Nick Corasaniti, BostonGlobe.com , 22 May 2022",
      "In general, is that the level of closeness from your life to the show, or do things tend to get more fictionalized than that",
      "But of course, there\u2019s no need to copy their looks verbatim . \u2014 Vogue , 11 Feb. 2022",
      "Thus, dialogue is not a verbatim one-to-one translation from English to sign language. \u2014 Steven Aquino, Forbes , 31 Jan. 2022",
      "The appeals court ruled that those scenes would be understood as dramatizations, and not as verbatim transcripts taken from real life. \u2014 Gene Maddaus, Variety , 27 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Medieval Latin verb\u0101tim , from Latin verbum \"word, verb entry 1 \" + -\u0101tim (as in n\u014dmin\u0101tim \"by name, expressly,\" formed from -\u0101tus , past participle suffix and -im , adverbial suffix)":"Adverb",
      "adjective derivative of verbatim entry 1":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Adverb",
      "1613, in the meaning defined above":"Adjective"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-220753"
  },
  "versifier":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-s\u0259-\u02ccf\u012b(-\u0259)r"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "bard",
      "minstrel",
      "muse",
      "poet",
      "poetaster",
      "rhymester",
      "rimester"
    ],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "I may not be a great poet, but I'm as good as those versifiers hired by the greeting card companies.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier , did not leave his mark on the world of art. \u2014 Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine , 10 May 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "14th century, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-224536"
  },
  "vertical blanking interval":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the pause between the last line of an image (as on a television display) and the first line of the next image":[
        "WorldGate's system allows a TV viewer to click from a show or commercial to a related Web site. The system works over cable, using a set-top box and TV's vertical blanking interval .",
        "\u2014 Bradley Johnson , Advertising Age , 10 Feb. 1997",
        "Although most of the broadcast television signal is video, there are also some data streams that go along for the ride. This information is embedded in a part of the signal called the vertical blanking interval .",
        "\u2014 J. D. Biersdorfert , New York Times , 26 Aug. 2004"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1966, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-230457"
  },
  "vertical bank":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a flight maneuver in which an airplane is so steeply banked that its lateral axis approaches the vertical":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-230939"
  },
  "vertebrally":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": toward, upon, or with the vertebrae":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-br\u0259l\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-003251"
  },
  "vermilion":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a vivid reddish orange":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259r-\u02c8mil-y\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those trees have grown rapidly and now drape the wetland in shade, attracting a variety of birds, such as yellow warblers, blue-gray gnatcatchers and vermilion flycatchers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "The sauce will break down into a deep and uniform vermilion color. \u2014 Danny Chau, The New Yorker , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Expect hard-edge black and vermilion typography rendered at the scale of architecture, the better to dance with. \u2014 Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "Silva strode across the artificial turf of Cajun Field, the UL Lafayette football stadium, on the evening of Aug. 7, 2020, in a vermilion cap and gown. \u2014 USA Today , 26 May 2021",
      "Isabella's coat of arms was added to the floral borders, using the same vermilion red as her gown, which the analysis distinguished from the red lead paint of the original. \u2014 Maev Kennedy, CNN , 19 May 2021",
      "Her admirers noted her ability to draw seemingly infinite nuance and shades from black ink, sometimes highlighted by a stroke of vermilion . \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2021",
      "Just then, like the placement of an ornament on the tip of a holiday tree branch, a bright-red male vermilion flycatcher fluttered down and landed not more than 10 feet in front of me. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vermilioun , borrowed from Anglo-French vermeilloun , from vermeil \"bright red, red color\" (going back to Late Latin vermiculus \"bright red color (obtained from kermes),\" going back to Latin, \"insect larva, grub,\" from vermis \"worm\" + -culus , diminutive suffix) + -on , diminutive or particularizing suffix, going back to Latin -\u014d, -\u014dn- , suffix of persons with a prominent feature \u2014 more at worm entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-011509"
  },
  "Very pistol":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a pistol for firing Very lights":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vir-\u0113-",
      "\u02c8ver-\u0113-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1915, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-012241"
  },
  "very hard":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": suitable chiefly for grating":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1943, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013104"
  },
  "vertical combination":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a combining of business firms engaged in different phases of the manufacture and distribution of a product into an interacting whole":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-013302"
  },
  "vertical curve":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an easement curve in railroad track to connect intersecting grade lines":[]
    },
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The testimony to his own desirability comes via Hardwick\u2019s versified letters or telephone talk: . . . \u2014 Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker , 9 Dec. 2019"
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      "Middle English versifien , borrowed from Anglo-French versifier , borrowed from Latin versific\u0101re , from versus verse entry 1 + ific\u0101re -ify":""
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      "14th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-033941"
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      ": a small stereoscopic camera made of metal and taking plates 45 to 107 millimeters in size":[]
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      "International Scientific Vocabulary vera (feminine of Latin verus true) + -scope":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-035641"
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      ": envelopment of a military enemy from the air (as with troops dropped by parachute or landed by gliders, helicopters, or airplanes) usually to seize key objectives in the enemy's rear":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-053509"
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      "noun"
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      ": whorl sense 2":[]
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      "New Latin verticillus , diminutive of Latin vertex whirl":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1793, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-060250"
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from Latin verb um + -arium":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-070921"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": one of the bony or cartilaginous segments composing the spinal column, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord":[]
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      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hesham Sallam, the founding director of the MUVP and a member of the research team, told ABC News that a meticulous operation was carried out to remove iron and sand from the vertebra 's surface. \u2014 Hatem Maher, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
      "The Army said another grave contained an additional second vertebra , a bone that sits high in the neck. \u2014 Jeff Gammage, Anchorage Daily News , 13 May 2022",
      "The injuries included a compression fracture of a vertebra that left the unidentified patient with a 75% stature loss, an inspection report shows. \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Furrer, a co-author of the study, also uncovered other fossils, including large vertebra and rib fragments from a second ichthyosaur and seven large vertebrae from a third. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "If Barash and his colleagues are right, the 'Ubeidya vertebra may reveal a more complicated story. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "On a recent day in Nuevo Laredo, gloved hands sifted through the dirt, separating out bits of bone: a piece of a jaw, a skull fragment, a vertebra . \u2014 Mar\u00cda Verza, ajc , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "His fifth cervical vertebra was crushed and his spinal cord injured, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "But Suntok\u2019s field notes contained a vital clue: near the shoulder-blade fragment, the lawyer found a fossilized atlas\u2014the vertebra from the base of a whale\u2019s skull. \u2014 Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, joint, vertebra, from vertere to turn":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072036"
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      "adjective",
      "noun"
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      ": capable of being verified":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccver-\u0259-\u02c8f\u012b-\u0259-b\u0259l"
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      "checkable",
      "confirmable",
      "demonstrable",
      "empirical",
      "empiric",
      "provable",
      "supportable",
      "sustainable"
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      "unverifiable"
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      "we're not sure whether that's a verifiable hypothesis",
      "you need a verifiable letter from your doctor to file a claim for short-term disability",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "His view is that the way forward here is to use digital identity building blocks such as W3C verifiable credentials (VCs). \u2014 David G.w. Birch, Forbes , 4 July 2022",
      "OneCoin also claimed to have a private blockchain, as opposed to a public and verifiable one that other virtual currencies have, and the value of OneCoin was determined by the company rather than market demand, the FBI said. \u2014 Aaron Katersky, ABC News , 30 June 2022",
      "Blockchain functions as a decentralized ledger, a record of transactions that is publicly available and verifiable but not maintained by any one entity. \u2014 Hamza Shaban, Washington Post , 27 June 2022",
      "Again, Wojcicki said that their focus is on guiding people towards authoritative content and removing anything that trivializes or downplays the verifiable violence and destruction that\u2019s occuring. \u2014 Dan Reilly, Fortune , 24 May 2022",
      "The data contain hundreds of emails to and from Hunter that were corroborated by easily verifiable meetings and transactions. \u2014 Andrew C. Mccarthy, National Review , 31 Mar. 2022",
      "The decentralized approach, known as verifiable credentials, is being explored by the Canadian province of British Columbia and a coalition of groups across Canada. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 24 May 2022",
      "Aspects of this claim are still verifiable , however. \u2014 Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone , 9 May 2022",
      "In Baer\u2019s estimation, the study has converted those anecdotes into verifiable fact \u2014 and given them a megaphone. \u2014 Angelique Jackson, Variety , 19 Jan. 2022"
    ],
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      "verify + -able":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1593, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-072443"
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  "verbascose":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a crystalline sugar C 30 H 56 O 26 obtained from mullein root":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary verbasc- (from New Latin Verbascum ) + -ose":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-074407"
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  "vertebra":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": one of the bony or cartilaginous segments composing the spinal column, consisting in some lower vertebrates of several distinct elements which never become united, and in higher vertebrates having a short more or less cylindrical body whose ends articulate by pads of elastic or cartilaginous tissue with those of adjacent vertebrae and a bony arch that encloses the spinal cord":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259rt-\u0259-br\u0259",
      "-\u02ccbr\u0101",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-t\u0259-br\u0259"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Hesham Sallam, the founding director of the MUVP and a member of the research team, told ABC News that a meticulous operation was carried out to remove iron and sand from the vertebra 's surface. \u2014 Hatem Maher, ABC News , 9 June 2022",
      "The Army said another grave contained an additional second vertebra , a bone that sits high in the neck. \u2014 Jeff Gammage, Anchorage Daily News , 13 May 2022",
      "The injuries included a compression fracture of a vertebra that left the unidentified patient with a 75% stature loss, an inspection report shows. \u2014 Brooks Sutherland, The Enquirer , 21 Apr. 2022",
      "Furrer, a co-author of the study, also uncovered other fossils, including large vertebra and rib fragments from a second ichthyosaur and seven large vertebrae from a third. \u2014 NBC News , 28 Apr. 2022",
      "If Barash and his colleagues are right, the 'Ubeidya vertebra may reveal a more complicated story. \u2014 Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica , 6 Feb. 2022",
      "On a recent day in Nuevo Laredo, gloved hands sifted through the dirt, separating out bits of bone: a piece of a jaw, a skull fragment, a vertebra . \u2014 Mar\u00cda Verza, ajc , 28 Feb. 2022",
      "His fifth cervical vertebra was crushed and his spinal cord injured, leaving him paralyzed from the neck down. \u2014 New York Times , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "But Suntok\u2019s field notes contained a vital clue: near the shoulder-blade fragment, the lawyer found a fossilized atlas\u2014the vertebra from the base of a whale\u2019s skull. \u2014 Devon Bidal, Smithsonian Magazine , 18 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, joint, vertebra, from vertere to turn":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1578, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-083453"
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    "type":[
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      "noun"
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      ": the right or privilege (as in England) of cutting living wood or sometimes of pasturing animals in a forest":[],
      ": the heraldic color green":[],
      "vertical":[]
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    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Sam Jones\u2019 Tony Hawk doc premiered in Santa Monica on March 30, where the skateboarding star presided over a live vert skating demo and screening of the HBO film. \u2014 Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Spending his summers on a skateboard, White earned two X Games championships on the vert ramp. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 8 Feb. 2022",
      "Open year-round, the Columbia Association skate park is home to 15,000 square feet of ramps, including a 20-foot straight rail, an 8-foot quarter pipe and a 10-foot vert wall. \u2014 baltimoresun.com , 12 Feb. 2022",
      "In Tokyo, park and street skateboarding made their debut, but vert did not. \u2014 Michelle Bruton, Forbes , 9 Dec. 2021",
      "Downhill cruising morphed into wild tricks off vert ramps and spinning moves inside empty swimming pools, then skate parks and the urban vibe of street skating. \u2014 David Wharton, Los Angeles Times , 8 Dec. 2021",
      "The producers are looking for skateboarders who are experienced in street, transition and vert skateboarding techniques. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "Vert Alert was one of Bryce Wettstein\u2019s first professional vert contests. \u2014 Michelle Bruton, Forbes , 29 Aug. 2021",
      "On Saturday, Hawk staged his inaugural Tony Hawk\u2019s Vert Alert, a new vert skateboarding contest held in partnership with Vans, in Salt Lake City. \u2014 Michelle Bruton, Forbes , 30 Aug. 2021"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Anglo-French, from vert green \u2014 more at verdant":"Noun"
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    "first_known_use":{
      "15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Noun"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-094059"
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    "type":[
      "idiom"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-095416"
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  "vertebral rib":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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      ": floating rib":[]
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    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110252"
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  "very much":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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      ": to a very great degree or extent":[
        "Thank you very much .",
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        "\u2014 often used in negative statements I didn't like the food very much . \"Did you like the movie"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-111426"
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  "vertep":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": an early Russian puppet show":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259r\u02c8tep"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Russian, literally, cavern, den":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112111"
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  "vernal sedge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a Eurasian sedge ( Carex caryophyllea ) with stoloniferous habit and early-blooming spikes that is naturalized in the eastern U.S.":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112159"
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  "Very Reverend":{
    "type":[
      "honorific title"
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    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ve-r\u0113-",
      "\u02c8ver-\u0113-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1748, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-112341"
  },
  "very large scale integration":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": the process of placing a very large number (as thousands) of circuits on a small semiconductor chip":[
        "\u2014 abbreviation VLSI"
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-114835"
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  "verifiability principle":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a proposal or claim of early logical positivists according to which a requirement or criterion for the meaningfulness of a factual statement is its susceptibility to the possibility of being either theoretically or actually proved true or false by reference to empirical facts \u2014 compare confirmability theory":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-115357"
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  "very low frequency":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a radio frequency between low frequency and voice frequency \u2014 see Radio Frequencies Table":[]
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organization has recorded more than 25 atom-bomb-scale asteroid impacts to Earth\u2019s atmosphere since 2000, using a network of infrasound ( very low frequency sound) sensors around the world. \u2014 Manasee Wagh, Popular Mechanics , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "Peden and her team determined how very low frequency (VLF) radio waves spread over long polar distances by measuring pathways in the ice. \u2014 Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine , 25 Mar. 2022",
      "This is balanced by tuning the cabinet and reflex port to a very low frequency , avoiding the \u2018one note bass\u2019 that is typical of many bass reflex systems. \u2014 Mark Sparrow, Forbes , 17 Mar. 2022",
      "Well, the very low frequency (VLF) waves are exactly right to cancel out and repel the radiative advances of the Van Allen Belts as a matter of total coincidence. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 16 Dec. 2020",
      "The very low frequency band antenna allows the E-6 to communicate with the U.S. Navy\u2019s ballistic missile submarines at sea. \u2014 Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics , 6 Oct. 2020",
      "Raindrop energy is very low frequency , which means this tech joins many other existing pushes to harvest continuously available, low frequency natural energy. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 10 Feb. 2020",
      "The Van Allen Probes are retired, but a subsequent instrument, the DSX dipole antenna, will explore the radiation belts and beam very low frequency (VLF) radio waves into them to see what happens. \u2014 Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics , 27 Dec. 2019",
      "In summer 2018, Fan and his colleagues were developing a method to study what are known as very low frequency earthquakes. \u2014 National Geographic , 16 Oct. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1938, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-121927"
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  "vermillion":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a vivid reddish orange":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259r-\u02c8mil-y\u0259n"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Those trees have grown rapidly and now drape the wetland in shade, attracting a variety of birds, such as yellow warblers, blue-gray gnatcatchers and vermilion flycatchers. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 23 June 2022",
      "In the 1950s, a film crew using the rocks as a stand-in for Red Rock Canyon in Nevada painted them red for vermilion verisimilitude. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 3 May 2022",
      "The sauce will break down into a deep and uniform vermilion color. \u2014 Danny Chau, The New Yorker , 13 Mar. 2022",
      "Expect hard-edge black and vermilion typography rendered at the scale of architecture, the better to dance with. \u2014 Lori Waxman, chicagotribune.com , 6 Jan. 2022",
      "Silva strode across the artificial turf of Cajun Field, the UL Lafayette football stadium, on the evening of Aug. 7, 2020, in a vermilion cap and gown. \u2014 USA Today , 26 May 2021",
      "Isabella's coat of arms was added to the floral borders, using the same vermilion red as her gown, which the analysis distinguished from the red lead paint of the original. \u2014 Maev Kennedy, CNN , 19 May 2021",
      "Her admirers noted her ability to draw seemingly infinite nuance and shades from black ink, sometimes highlighted by a stroke of vermilion . \u2014 Emily Langer, Washington Post , 4 Mar. 2021",
      "Just then, like the placement of an ornament on the tip of a holiday tree branch, a bright-red male vermilion flycatcher fluttered down and landed not more than 10 feet in front of me. \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Dec. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English vermilioun , borrowed from Anglo-French vermeilloun , from vermeil \"bright red, red color\" (going back to Late Latin vermiculus \"bright red color (obtained from kermes),\" going back to Latin, \"insect larva, grub,\" from vermis \"worm\" + -culus , diminutive suffix) + -on , diminutive or particularizing suffix, going back to Latin -\u014d, -\u014dn- , suffix of persons with a prominent feature \u2014 more at worm entry 1":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-122521"
  },
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    "type":[
      "adjective"
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    "definitions":{
      ": showing moderate evidence of wear":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1841, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-133924"
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  "Very's night signals":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol and their arrangement in groups denotes numbers having a code significance":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "after Edward W. Very \u20201910 American naval officer":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-134328"
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  "versificator":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": versifier":[]
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    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Latin, from versificatus (past participle) + -or":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-143835"
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    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a pyrotechnic signal in a system of signaling using white or colored balls of fire projected from a special pistol":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vir-\u0113-",
      "\u02c8ver-\u0113-"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Edward W. Very \u20201910 American naval officer":""
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      ": a genus of coarse widely distributed herbs (family Scrophulariaceae) having large often woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow, white, or purplish flowers with a rotate corolla and five perfect stamens \u2014 see mullein":[]
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-152419"
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      "noun"
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      "-\u02ccbr\u0101t",
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      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Diving deep has evolved in nearly every type of ocean-going vertebrate . \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 June 2022",
      "Connie's vertebrate was cracked as her husband watched in horror. \u2014 Christine Macdonald, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
      "That era on Earth was a goofy time to be a vertebrate , according to Ben Otoo, a graduate student studying early tetrapods at the University of Chicago. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Originally described in 2015, the squiggly little fossil vertebrate was heralded as a possible relative of the earliest snakes, a sinuous reptile that still had legs. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "This fossil appears to be an early amniote, which is a land-living vertebrate that lays eggs, according to Adam Huttenlocker, an outside specialist on the team who researches early tetrapod fossils and is an assistant professor at USC. \u2014 Sherry Liang, CNN , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "The fossilized critter is an amniote\u2014a land-dwelling vertebrate that lays eggs\u2014 and has four legs. \u2014 Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "The strange, gruesome story of the Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate on Earth. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
      "The strange, gruesome story of the Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate on Earth. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The Greenland shark is the second largest shark after the great white and is the longest living vertebrate animal, according to the St. Lawrence Shark Observatory in Quebec, Canada. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Big Bone Lick is considered the birthplace of American vertebrate paleontology. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 8 May 2022",
      "On top of that, muscles in the songbird syrinx contract faster than any other vertebrate muscle, enabling millisecond-level temporal control. \u2014 Adam Fishbein, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
      "The ranch land supports more than 500 vertebrate species, according to a report from the Land Conservancy, including multiple listed for federal and state protections. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Interestingly, the other vertebrate fliers of the Mesozoic, the pterosaurs, did not have a syrinx. \u2014 Michael B. Habib, Scientific American , 1 Jan. 2022",
      "Tyler Lyson, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who also didn\u2019t take part in the study, said fossilized skeletons like that of Big John helped to bring the ancient beasts back to life. \u2014 Tom Metcalfe, NBC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Whether or not osteocalcin played the big role in vertebrate evolution that Karsenty proposes, these studies have inspired other scientists to examine all kinds of ways that bone listens to and talks to the rest of the body. \u2014 Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "These bones make up the most complete dinosaur remains at any Australian museum, according to Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at Museums Victoria. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 20 Mar. 2022"
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      "New Latin Vertebrata , from neuter plural of vertebratus":"Noun",
      "New Latin vertebratus , from Latin, jointed, from vertebra":"Adjective"
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      "1826, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-161210"
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    "definitions":{
      "Paul(-Marie) 1844\u20131896 French poet":[]
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      "ver-\u02c8l\u0101n",
      "-\u02c8len"
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164205"
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  "verklempt":{
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      "adjective"
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      ": overcome with emotion : choked up":[
        "Hunched over my tiny screens lately, I've found myself \u2026 verklempt over an old video I posted of my son blowing bubbles in the bathtub.",
        "\u2014 James Poniewozik"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259r-",
      "f\u0259r-\u02c8klem(p)t"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The 95-year-old Bennett\u2014who retired from music last year after being diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s disease\u2014introduced Gaga, who was clearly verklempt to be singing solo. \u2014 Michelle Ruiz, Vogue , 4 Apr. 2022",
      "Tre is also a devoted son who gets a little verklempt talking about his parents, who have been married for 29 years. \u2014 Kristen Baldwin, EW.com , 8 June 2021",
      "Actor BD Wong, a San Francisco native who has achieved great acclaim on Broadway and television, was initially verklempt , struggling to contain his emotion before finding words to describe Perloff. \u2014 Catherine Bigelow, San Francisco Chronicle , 9 Apr. 2018"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Yiddish farklemt \"depressed, grieving,\" past participle of farklemen \"to grip, press,\" going back to Middle High German verklemmen , from ver- , vir- , vor- , verb prefix, here with intensive force (going back to Old High German fir- , far- for- ) + klemmen \"to press, squeeze,\" going back to Old High German -klemmen (in biklemmen \"to block, oppress\"), going back to Germanic *klammjan- , derivative from a base *klamm- , whence Old English clam , clom \"bond, fetter\" \u2014 more at clam entry 1":""
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    "first_known_use":{
      "1991, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-164427"
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  "veridical hallucination":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a hallucination corresponding to a real event (as when the apparition of an image of an absent person is coincident with that person's death)":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-172810"
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  "very-low-density lipoprotein":{
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      "noun"
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      ": vldl":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The final type is very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL), which makes up about 10-15 percent of a person's total cholesterol. \u2014 chicagotribune.com , 1 Oct. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1977, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-173602"
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  "verapamil":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a calcium channel blocker C 27 H 38 N 2 O 4 used especially in the form of its hydrochloride":[]
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      "v\u0259-\u02c8rap-\u0259-\u02ccmil",
      "v\u0259-\u02c8ra-p\u0259-\u02ccmil"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Finally, calcium channel blockers, like verapamil , may help prevent migraine with aura. \u2014 Abigail Libers, SELF , 9 Mar. 2022",
      "For some drugs, such as fexofenadine and verapamil , the PNECs are unknown because the calculations have not been done or are not publicly available. \u2014 Natasha Gilbert, STAT , 11 Dec. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "perhaps from verap- (altered from letters of papaverine , from analogs of which the drug was developed) + am(ino) + (nitr)il(e)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1967, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-180521"
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  "very same":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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      ": exact same":[
        "I told the very same story."
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182233"
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  "vermilionette":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of various brilliant red organic pigments made by precipitating eosin or a similar dye upon a base (as barium sulfate or white lead)":[]
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    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vermilion entry 1 + -ette":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-182356"
  },
  "very little love lost":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
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    "pronounciation":[],
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-192556"
  },
  "ver macaque":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": torsalo":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6ver-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "French, literally, macaque worm":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193232"
  },
  "verticill-":{
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      "combining form"
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      ": whorl : verticil":[
        "verticill ary"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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      "New Latin, from verticillus , from Latin, whorl of a spindle, diminutive of vertic-, vertex whirl":""
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    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-193307"
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  "vernal witch hazel":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a fragrant witch hazel ( Hamamelis vernalis ) native to the lower Mississippi valley with very small flowers that appear from midwinter to spring":[]
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-201048"
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    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "plural noun"
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    "definitions":{
      ": a division of lizards consisting of the chameleons":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-gw\u0113\u0259",
      "\""
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from vermi- + -linguia or -lingues (from Latin lingua tongue)":"Plural noun",
      "New Latin, from vermi- + -linguia (from Latin lingua tongue)":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-202603"
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  "vertebral":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or being vertebrae or the vertebral column : spinal":[
        "a vertebral fracture"
      ]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8t\u0113-br\u0259l",
      "\u02c8v\u0259rt-\u0259-",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-t\u0259-"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "On May 24, surgeons at St. Luke\u2019s removed part of Garner\u2019s vertebral bone to ease pressure on his spinal cord. \u2014 Emilie Eaton, San Antonio Express-News , 17 Nov. 2021",
      "The five lumbar vertebral bodies are the bones that are stacked on top of each other to form your lower spine. \u2014 Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes , 6 Oct. 2021",
      "Another suffered a sliced vertebral artery which led to a stroke and later death. \u2014 Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping , 3 Sep. 2021",
      "The left vertebral artery is working well, according to the post. \u2014 Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star , 11 Aug. 2021",
      "Two patients died, one from significant blood loss after the operation and the other from a stroke caused by a cut vertebral artery. \u2014 Mahita Gajanan, Time , 16 July 2021",
      "According to Shapiro, three specific Verte-Stack vertebral replacement devices could only be used for their contraindicated purpose in the upper spine, because of their shape and size. \u2014 Jim Spencer And Joe Carlson, Star Tribune , 6 Apr. 2021",
      "Gavin Smith, an osteopath in London, goes even further, suggesting that slumping can increase spine length and reduce stiffness in vertebral joints (by increasing the amount of fluid between disks). \u2014 Patricia Marx, The New Yorker , 22 Mar. 2021",
      "Acceptance of germ theory and vaccination would repudiate the founding premise of the profession that all disease stems from vertebral misalignments. \u2014 Sean B. Carroll, Scientific American , 8 Nov. 2020"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1681, in the meaning defined above":""
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    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-203056"
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  "veratric acid":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a crystalline acid (CH 3 O) 2 C 6 H 3 COOH occurring in sabadilla seed and also formed by decomposition of veratridine and other alkaloids; 3,4-dimethoxy-benzoic acid":[],
      ": a crystalline acid isomeric with veratric acid; 2,3-dimethoxy-benzoic acid":[]
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    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259\u0307\u02c8ra\u2027trik-"
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    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "International Scientific Vocabulary veratr- + -ic":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-205012"
  },
  "Vertebraria":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a genus of fossil plants based upon rootlike remains of Triassic age that resemble a vertebral column":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259rt\u0259\u02c8bra(a)r\u0113\u0259"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin, from Latin vertebra \u201cjoint, vertebra \u201d + New Latin -aria -aria entry 2":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-210721"
  },
  "Vermilingua":{
    "type":[
      "plural noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a superfamily comprising the American anteaters or sometimes these together with the pangolins and aardvark":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259rm\u0259\u02c8li\u014bgw\u0259"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin, from vermi- + Latin lingua tongue":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-211729"
  },
  "vernalization":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "transitive verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or process of hastening the flowering and fruiting of plants by treating seeds, bulbs, or seedlings so as to induce a shortening of the vegetative period":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccv\u0259r-n\u0259-l\u0259-\u02c8z\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The gift of flavor that vernalization produces is shared by many winter crops. \u2014 Jonathan Kauffman, Bon App\u00e9tit , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "The onset of vernalization , or dormancy, is triggered by a plant hormone, then fruit-bearing vines, trees and canes begin to rest. \u2014 Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman , 21 Feb. 2018",
      "Lysenko just had to point at these mistaken figures and say, look, vernalization works. \u2014 Marina Koren, The Atlantic , 5 May 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "vernal + -ization (as translation of Russian jarovizacija )":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1933, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-222609"
  },
  "vernal":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": of, relating to, or occurring in the spring":[
        "vernal equinox",
        "vernal sunshine"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-n\u1d4al"
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    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "trees and flowers in vernal bloom",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The Easter Bunny therefore seems to recall these pre-Christian celebrations of spring, heralded by the vernal equinox and personified by the Goddess Eostre. \u2014 Tok Thompson, The Conversation , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "The Chatsworth Nature Preserve is a remarkable site with seasonal wetlands and vernal pools, grasslands, oak woodlands and savanna, and riparian areas. \u2014 Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Last year, those of us who volunteered helped more than 11,000 amphibians safely reach their vernal pools. \u2014 Joanna Lentini, Smithsonian Magazine , 30 Mar. 2022",
      "The 3,521-acre preserve is sort of a living library of biodiversity with vanishing habitat types, including grasslands, wetlands, vernal pools, coastal sage scrub and oak woodlands. \u2014 Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune , 26 Nov. 2021",
      "Divots in the dome\u2019s surface collect rainwater to create vernal pools, which are home to fairy shrimp, tiny translucent freshwater crustaceans. \u2014 Outside Online , 17 June 2021",
      "The Easter bunny therefore seems to recall these pre-Christian celebrations of spring, heralded by the vernal equinox and personified by the goddess Eostre. \u2014 Tok Thompson, Smithsonian Magazine , 14 Apr. 2022",
      "Tiger salamander larvae boiling in every vernal pool dotting the plain, the external lungs behind their heads swaying like aquatic lion\u2019s manes. \u2014 Carolyn Wells, Longreads , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "So even if the average temperature of 33 on Sunday, as of 7 p.m., might meet nobody\u2019s conception of spring, signs suggested a trend in the vernal direction. \u2014 Washington Post , 21 Feb. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Latin vern\u0101lis, from vernus \"of spring\" (going back to pre-Latin *u\u032fesri-no-, adjective derivative from the base of Latin v\u0113r \"spring\") + -\u0101lis -al entry 1 ; v\u0113r \"spring,\" going back to Indo-European *u\u032f\u1e17s-r\u0325-, *u\u032fes-n\u0325-s, whence also Old Norse v\u00e1r \"spring,\" Old Frisian wars, w\u0113rs, Welsh gwanwyn (Old Welsh guiannuin, from British Celtic *u\u032fesant\u0113no- ), Middle Irish errach (probably from *u\u032fesr\u0101ko-, with generalization of the lenited initial consonant), Old Church Slavic vesna, Russian vesn\u00e1, Lithuanian v\u00e3sara \"summer,\" Greek \u00e9ar \"spring\" (from *u\u032fehar, from *u\u032fesr \u0325), Armenian garun ( gar- from *gehar-, from *u\u032fesr\u0325- + a suffix), Sanskrit vasant\u00e1-, Avestan va\u014bri (locative) \"in the spring\"":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1530, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-223056"
  },
  "Vermeer":{
    "type":[
      "biographical name"
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    "definitions":{
      "Jan 1632\u20131675 also called":[
        "Jan van der Meer van Delft \\ van-\u200bd\u0259r-\u200b\u02c8mer-\u200bvan-\u200b\u02c8delft , -\u200b\u02c8mir-\u200b \\"
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      "Dutch painter":[
        "Jan van der Meer van Delft \\ van-\u200bd\u0259r-\u200b\u02c8mer-\u200bvan-\u200b\u02c8delft , -\u200b\u02c8mir-\u200b \\"
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    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259r-\u02c8mer",
      "-\u02c8mir"
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    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-233949"
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  "verification":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the act or process of verifying : the state of being verified":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02ccver-\u0259-f\u0259-\u02c8k\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "The process takes well under an hour, doesn\u2019t require any special hardware or expensive software, and will generate fake IDs that pass inspection using the electronic verification system used by police and participating venues. \u2014 Dan Goodin, Ars Technica , 24 May 2022",
      "Unfortunately, that is precisely how the financial aid verification system works. \u2014 Edward Conroy, Forbes , 19 May 2022",
      "Snap says users must be 13 or older, but the app, like many other platforms, doesn\u2019t use an age- verification system, so any child who knows how to type a fake birthday can create an account. \u2014 Washington Post , 5 May 2022",
      "But the technology, which includes facial recognition, has been part of an identity- verification system for people to establish online accounts through the IRS website. \u2014 Richard Rubin, WSJ , 7 Feb. 2022",
      "In this case, Ms. Harrison, who appeared to be under 30, presented a Louisiana driver\u2019s license that did not clear our electronic verification system. \u2014 NBC News , 13 Oct. 2021",
      "Seattle: King County is working to set up a COVID-19 vaccine verification system that could go into effect next month at certain nonessential, high-risk settings. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 10 Sep. 2021",
      "Both those states\u2019s vaccine verification systems saw high uptake, Owens said, pointing to a February Washington news release that said its system had been used to generate 1 million QR codes. \u2014 oregonlive , 26 Apr. 2022",
      "The high-end, 126,000-square-foot club has already signed up nearly a thousand members, all of whom must now provide vaccine verification before using the facility. \u2014 Robert Channick, chicagotribune.com , 8 Jan. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from Medieval Latin v\u0113rific\u0101ti\u014dn-, v\u0113rific\u0101ti\u014d , from v\u0113rific\u0101re \"to verify \" + Latin -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of action nouns":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1523, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-000857"
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  "vernation":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the arrangement of foliage leaves within the bud \u2014 compare estivation":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "(\u02cc)v\u0259r-\u02c8n\u0101-sh\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
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    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin vern\u0101ti\u014dn-, vern\u0101ti\u014d , from Latin vern\u0101re \"to carry on as in spring, be springlike\" (verbal derivative of vernus \"of spring\") + -ti\u014dn-, -ti\u014d , suffix of deverbal nouns \u2014 more at vernal":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1793, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-002019"
  },
  "vertebrate":{
    "type":[
      "adjective",
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord , a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord , and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys ) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life":[],
      ": having a spinal column":[],
      ": of or relating to the vertebrates":[],
      ": organized or constructed in orderly or developed form":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-\u02ccbr\u0101t",
      "\u02c8v\u0259rt-\u0259-br\u0259t",
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-t\u0259-br\u0259t"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Diving deep has evolved in nearly every type of ocean-going vertebrate . \u2014 Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine , 6 June 2022",
      "Connie's vertebrate was cracked as her husband watched in horror. \u2014 Christine Macdonald, Detroit Free Press , 22 May 2022",
      "That era on Earth was a goofy time to be a vertebrate , according to Ben Otoo, a graduate student studying early tetrapods at the University of Chicago. \u2014 New York Times , 29 Apr. 2022",
      "Originally described in 2015, the squiggly little fossil vertebrate was heralded as a possible relative of the earliest snakes, a sinuous reptile that still had legs. \u2014 Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine , 10 Feb. 2022",
      "This fossil appears to be an early amniote, which is a land-living vertebrate that lays eggs, according to Adam Huttenlocker, an outside specialist on the team who researches early tetrapod fossils and is an assistant professor at USC. \u2014 Sherry Liang, CNN , 5 Nov. 2021",
      "The fossilized critter is an amniote\u2014a land-dwelling vertebrate that lays eggs\u2014 and has four legs. \u2014 Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine , 11 Nov. 2021",
      "The strange, gruesome story of the Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate on Earth. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
      "The strange, gruesome story of the Greenland shark, the longest-living vertebrate on Earth. \u2014 The New Yorker , 10 Aug. 2021",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective",
      "The Greenland shark is the second largest shark after the great white and is the longest living vertebrate animal, according to the St. Lawrence Shark Observatory in Quebec, Canada. \u2014 Mike Snider, USA TODAY , 8 Apr. 2022",
      "Big Bone Lick is considered the birthplace of American vertebrate paleontology. \u2014 Jeff Suess, The Enquirer , 8 May 2022",
      "On top of that, muscles in the songbird syrinx contract faster than any other vertebrate muscle, enabling millisecond-level temporal control. \u2014 Adam Fishbein, Scientific American , 1 May 2022",
      "The ranch land supports more than 500 vertebrate species, according to a report from the Land Conservancy, including multiple listed for federal and state protections. \u2014 From Usa Today Network And Wire Reports, USA TODAY , 22 Apr. 2022",
      "Interestingly, the other vertebrate fliers of the Mesozoic, the pterosaurs, did not have a syrinx. \u2014 Michael B. Habib, Scientific American , 1 Jan. 2022",
      "Tyler Lyson, the curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who also didn\u2019t take part in the study, said fossilized skeletons like that of Big John helped to bring the ancient beasts back to life. \u2014 Tom Metcalfe, NBC News , 7 Apr. 2022",
      "Whether or not osteocalcin played the big role in vertebrate evolution that Karsenty proposes, these studies have inspired other scientists to examine all kinds of ways that bone listens to and talks to the rest of the body. \u2014 Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine , 3 Mar. 2022",
      "These bones make up the most complete dinosaur remains at any Australian museum, according to Erich Fitzgerald, senior curator of vertebrate paleontology at Museums Victoria. \u2014 Megan Marples, CNN , 20 Mar. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin Vertebrata , from neuter plural of vertebratus":"Noun",
      "New Latin vertebratus , from Latin, jointed, from vertebra":"Adjective"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1826, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
      "1820, in the meaning defined at sense 1a":"Adjective"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-003519"
  },
  "vermifuge":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": an agent that destroys or expels parasitic worms : anthelmintic":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8v\u0259r-m\u0259-\u02ccfy\u00fcj"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Purslane, which the Cherokee used as a vermifuge because its scarlet stalks looked vaguely wormlike, is also a powerful antioxidant. \u2014 Amanda Fortini, New York Times , 12 Nov. 2020",
      "In my experience, an eight-day, mono-diet goat-milk cleanse \u2014 accompanied by a specific vermifuge made of anti-parasitic herbs \u2014 is the most successful treatment. \u2014 Gabriella Paiella, The Cut , 24 Aug. 2017"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from New Latin vermifuga, vermifugus , from vermi- vermi- + -fuga, -fugus -fuge":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1718, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-012437"
  },
  "vermilion flycatcher":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": any of several American flycatchers of the genus Pyrocephalus which have in the adult male bright scarlet and brownish gray or black plumage and one ( P. rubinus mexicanus ) of which is found as far north as southern Texas and Arizona":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013011"
  },
  "versus caudati":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": tail rhyme":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8vers\u0259\u02ccskau\u0307\u02c8d\u00e4t(\u02cc)\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "New Latin":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-013511"
  },
  "vernadskite":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a mineral Cu 4 (SO 4 ) 3 (OH) 2 .4H 2 O consisting of a hydrous basic sulfate of copper":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "-d\u02ccsk-",
      "v\u0259(r)\u02c8nadz\u02cck\u012bt"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Vladimir I. Vernadsky \u20201945 Russian geologist + English -ite":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-015832"
  },
  "veratridine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a poisonous alkaloid C 36 H 51 NO 11 occurring especially in sabadilla seed":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "v\u0259-\u02c8ra-tr\u0259-\u02ccd\u0113n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "veratr(ine) + -idine":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1907, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-021154"
  },
  "veratrine":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a poisonous irritant mixture of alkaloids from sabadilla seed that has been used as a counterirritant and insecticide":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ver-\u0259-\u02cctr\u0113n",
      "v\u0259-\u02c8ra-tr\u0259n"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "borrowed from French v\u00e9ratrine , from New Latin Veratrum veratrum + -ine -ine entry 2":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1822, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025137"
  }
}