Verisimilitude

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–noun 

1. the appearance 

or 

semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play [lacked] verisimilitude.  



2. something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth.





　

The title 10 Things I Hate About You just begs for groan-[inducing] puns about its film's quality. 



As it turns out, most of them are deserved. Another attempt to carbon copy the formula of the sleeper hit Clueless, which set Jane Austen's Emma among the pastels of modern teenagerhood, 10 Things offers a bubblegum update of William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. 



While one shouldn't look for verisimilitude in a high school comedy, this one is even more of a caricature of real teen life than most. It's asking a lot to consider Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles, the only cast members with genuine presence, the loser outcasts of their school.



pun

雙關語,俏皮話

carbon copy

複寫的副本

(非正式用法) 極相像的人或物





connive

They [con]nived to take over the business.  

The policeman connived [at] traffic violations.  

drunken mothers; [conniving] fathers; double-crossing sweethearts

evict

evince

manifest

yet another movie that [evinces] the filmmaker's obsession with fraternity, not to mention Irene Jacob's face.

ostensible

an ostensible cheerfulness [concealing] sadness. 

the ostensible [truth] of their theories. 

[Ostensibly] a commentary on modern life and the homogenization of urban culture

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