veracity
conformity to truth; habitual truthfulness
Word origin: From Latin verus, true.
Veracity in a sentence
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Investigators questioned the veracity of the witness's testimony.
The committee questioned the veracity of the testimony after it conflicted with the documented timeline.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “veracity” well
Veracity means conformity to truth or habitual truthfulness, describing statements or people. Do not confuse it with voracity, which means a ravenous appetite.
More GRE words starting with V
to waver indecisively between options or opinions
the inability to decide between different courses of action; wavering
total absence of thought, ideas, or substance
empty of meaning, substance, or intelligence
a person who roams from place to place with no fixed home
an unpredictable or capricious change or notion
a person who wanders without a settled home or work
excessively boastful and vain about one's achievements
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