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verisimilitude
noun
the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.
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Verisimilitude, 鈥渢he appearance or semblance of truth; probability,鈥� comes via French similitude from Latin 惫脓谤墨蝉颈尘颈濒颈迟奴诲艒 (also written as an open compound 惫脓谤墨 蝉颈尘颈濒颈迟奴诲艒), an uncommon noun meaning 鈥減robability, plausibility,鈥� literally 鈥渞esemblance to the truth.鈥� 厂颈尘颈濒颈迟奴诲艒 is a derivative of the adjective similis 鈥渓ike, resembling, similar,鈥� which governs the genitive case. 痴脓谤墨 is the genitive singular of 惫脓谤耻尘, a noun use of the neuter gender of the adjective 惫脓谤耻蝉 鈥渢rue, real.鈥� Vera, the female personal name, is the feminine singular of 惫脓谤耻蝉 and is related to the Slavic (Russian) female name Vera, which is also used as a common noun (vera) meaning 鈥渇aith, good faith, trust.鈥� The Latin and Slavic forms come from a Proto-Indo-European root wer-, 飞别谤菨-, 飞脓谤– 鈥渢rue, trustworthy.鈥� In Germanic 飞脓谤膩 became 痴腻谤 in Old Norse, the goddess of faithful oaths. Verisimilitude entered English in the early 17th century.
how is verisimilitude used?
Every beast you see here, from elephant to elephant shrew, and every square inch of habitat, from desert sand to belching mud, is computer-created, and one can but marvel at the verisimilitude.
According to O鈥橞rien, artificial intelligence will soon push the verisimilitude of computer-generated fake images and videos beyond what even skilled human editors can produce.
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legerity
noun
physical or mental quickness; nimbleness; agility.
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Legerity, 鈥渕ental or physical agility,鈥� comes from Middle French 濒别驳别谤别迟茅 鈥渓ightness, thoughtlessness,鈥� a derivative of leger, liger 鈥渓ight (in weight).鈥� Leger is a regular French phonological development of Vulgar Latin 濒别惫颈腻谤颈耻蝉 鈥渓ight (in weight),鈥� equivalent to Latin levis. The original and now obsolete English meaning of legerity was 鈥渓ack of seriousness, frivolity鈥� (its French sense). The current sense 鈥渘imbleness, quickness鈥� dates from the end of the 16th century.
how is legerity used?
Alighting with the legerity of a cat, he swerved leftward in the recoil, and was off, like a streak of mulberry-coloured lightning, down the High.
With such legerity of mind, how could I not study physics?
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scofflaw
noun
a person who flouts rules, conventions, or accepted practices.
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Scofflaw, a transparent compound of the verb scoff 鈥渢o deride, mock鈥� and the noun law, was originally an Americanism coined during Prohibition. In 1923 Delcevare King, a wealthy prohibitionist from Quincy, Massachusetts, offered $200 in a contest for a word that best described “a lawless drinker of illegally made or illegally obtained liquor.” On January 15, 1924, the Boston Herald declared scofflaw the winner. Scofflaw had been submitted by Henry Dale and Kate Butler, two of the 25,000 contestants, who shared the prize.
how is scofflaw used?
Even then, he had a reputation as a scofflaw. He had exaggerated his war record. He first ran for Senate (and lost) while he was still in uniform, which was against Army regulations, and he ran his second Senate campaign while he was a sitting judge, a violation of his oath.
Larry David identified this聽breed of scofflaw [the two-space parker]聽as the “pig parker.”
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