Adjective
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being the exact same one
not any other:
"this is the identical room we stayed in before"
"the themes of his stories are one and the same"
"saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"
"on this very spot"
"the very thing he said yesterday"
"the very man I want to see"
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precisely as stated
"the very center of town"
Adverb
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precisely so
"on the very next page"
"he expected the very opposite"
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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"