verify
VAIR-uh-fyeverbMeaning to check or prove that something is true
Memory hook VER-ify: make sure it’s VERY true. Before she buys the old coin, Ada studies it under her magnifying glass, front and back. She wants to verify that it is real gold.
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In context The museum would not display the old letter until experts could verify that it had been written in 1776, not copied a century later.
Similar confirm, check, prove, validate
Opposite disprove, refute
From Latin verificare, “to make true,” from verus, true.