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[vouch]
verb (used without object)
1.
to support as being true, certain, reliable, etc. (usually followed by for): Her record in office vouches for her integrity.
2.
to attest; guarantee; certify (usually followed by for): to vouch for someone in a business transaction.
verb (used with object)
3.
to sustain or uphold by, or as if by, practical proof or demonstration.
4.
(formerly) to call or summon (a person) into court to make good a warranty of title.
5.
to adduce or quote in support, as extracts from a book or author; cite in warrant or justification, as authority, instances, facts, etc.
6.
Archaic. to warrant or attest; to support or authenticate with vouchers.
7.
Archaic. to declare as with warrant; vouch for.
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Obsolete. to call or take as a witness.
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Vouches is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
noun Obsolete.
9.
a vouching; an assertion.
10.
a formal attestation; a supporting warrant.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English vouchen < Anglo-French, Middle French vo(u)cher, Old French avochier < Latin advocāre; see advocate

un·vouched, adjective
well-vouched, adjective
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Word Origin & History

vouch
early 14c., "summon into court to prove a title," from Anglo-Fr. voucher, O.Fr. vocher "to call, summon, invoke, claim," probably from Gallo-Romance *voticare, metathesis of L. vocitare "to call to, summon insistently," frequentative of L. vocare "to call, call upon, summon" (see
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voice). Meaning "guarantee to be true or accurate" is first attested 1590s.
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