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Adverb: very  ve-ree
  1. Used as an intensifier
    "she was very gifted"; "he played very well";
    - really, real [N. Amer], rattling [informal], mucho [informal], thoroughly, cracking [Brit, informal], rotten [informal], massively [informal], dirty [Brit, informal], excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously, tremendously [informal], capitally, awesomely [informal]
     
  2. Precisely so
    "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite"
Adjective: very  ve-ree
  1. Precisely as stated
    "the very centre of town"
     
  2. Being the exact same one; not any other:
    "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday";
    - identical, selfsame

See also: precise, same

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