Adverb
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used as intensifiers
`real' is sometimes used informally for `really'
`rattling' is informal
"she was very gifted"
"he played very well"
"a really enjoyable evening"
"I'm real sorry about it"
"a rattling good yarn"
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in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)
"in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire"
"really, you shouldn't have done it"
"a truly awful book"
- in truth -
in actual fact
"to be nominally but not actually independent"
"no one actually saw the shark"
"large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt"
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in accordance with truth or fact or reality
"she was now truly American"
"a genuinely open society"
"they don't really listen to us"