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How to spell verification

Verification is spelled V-E-R-I-F-I-C-A-T-I-O-N.

What it means: Proof that something is correct.

In a sentence: The teacher used verification to check our answers. ▶

The part people get wrong

Watch for an unstressed vowel that is hard to hear.

Same family: verified, verifying, verifiable, verification-code. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: “Verification” comes from the Latin word “verus,” meaning “true,” and the suffix “-fication,” meaning “making” or “doing.” So its original sense is literally “the making of truth,” which nicely matches the idea of checking that something is really correct.

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