2. greenness, verdancy, viridity, Bot. virescence.
3. freshness, vigor, vitality, healthy, growth, exuberance, luxuriance, lushness.
verge1, n. 1. edge, border, margin, rim, lip; curb, curbstone, ledge, sill; brink, brim, brow, hem, fringe, periphery, perimeter, skirt; bound or bounds, confines, limit or limits, city limits, outer limits; butting, abuttal, bourn, pale, extremity, termination, end; boundary, boundary line, border line, frontier, frontier line, partition line, line of demarcation, line.
2. brink, breaking point, threshold.
3. rod, wand, staff, scepter, baton, truncheon, mace, crosier, Class. Myth, caduceus.
verge2, v. incline, tend to or toward, bear, lean to or toward; list, tip, tilt, cant, heel, Naut. careen; slope, slant, obique, skew, angle, bevel, pitch, grade, bank; descend, drop or drop off, dip, sag, fall, gravitate, sink.
verification, n. 1. confirmation, substantiation, corroboration, establishment, proof; assurance, affirmation, asseveration, averment, certification; attestation, deposition, avouchment; authentication, validation, ratification, endorsement; support, strengthening, reinforcement.
2. certificate, warranty, guarantee, guaranty, voucher; testimonial, testimony, Archaic, testimonium; evidence, proof, word, statement, affidavit, instrument in proof,
verify, v. 1. prove, confirm, substantiate, bear out, corroborate; give credence to, establish, fix, make certain, clinch, clench; attest, certify, evidence, go to show, affirm, assure, aver; vouch for, support, sustain, bear witness to, identify, testify, depose, document, demonstrate.
2. authenticate, validate, endorse, accredit, warrant; guarantee, underwrite, countersign, back up; vindicate, justify, make good, uphold; ratify, acknowledge, recognize.
verisimilitude, n. 1. genuineness, authenticity, realness; realism, naturalism, lifelikeness; literalness.
2. probability, likelihood, likeliness; credibility, plausibility.
veritable, adj. 1. real, actual, factual, genuine, authentic, bona fide, legitimate.
2. absolute, positive, certain, sure, definite; unquestionable, indisputable, indubitable, undeniable,
verity, n. 1. truth, Archaic, troth, reality, actuality, Archaic, sooth; gospel, gospel truth, naked truth, unvarnished truth, SI. straight goods; facts, Inf. low-down, Inf. scoop, story; inside information, intelligence.
2. factuality, factualness, actualness; realness, authenticity, genuineness; validity, validness, soundness.
3. fact, certainty, certitude; principle, rule, law, fundamental, canon; theorem, Math, proposition.
vermin, n. 1. lice, cooties, Dial, varmints.
2. scoundrel, dog, cur, reptile, swine, snake, snake in the grass, Inf. bad egg.
3. riffraff, rabble, ruck, rout, canaille, scum, scum of the earth, dregs or offscourings of society, Contemptuous. ragtag and bobtail.
vernacular, adj. 1. native, natal, indigenous, autochthonous; endemic, local, localized, topical.
2. informal, everyday, ordinary, familiar, unliterary; colloquial, conversational, spoken; substandard, nonstandard.
3. common, commonplace, general, average, public, popular, SI. pop; middlebrow, middle-class, bourgeois, Inf. straight, SI. plastic; vulgar, lowbrow, plebeian.
-n. 4. native speech, mother tongue, language;