Veritable Likeness of Writing

Veritable (adjective) Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.

Veritable is one of those words that people ruined.  Which is kind of a ridiculous statement because words have no meaning if not used by people so I guess if anyone has the right to screw them up, it's us.

But some words, like veritable, are so overused that they really don't mean anything anymore.  For example the word "like."  It is used, like, a million times a day like a crutch and I'm not really sure if I like having to consider the context to decide if it is used like prose or like a filler.

Or "very."  I have professor with a bee in his bonnet about this word which apparently used to mean something quite different from "a lot."  And even today it can be on two ends of the spectrum of extreme-ness; either I am very bored of this post (meaning incredibly bored), or the very thought of finishing reading makes me sleepy (meaning just the slightest thought.)

I try to write crap-free, but then again I'm not like, very professional.

When writing meaningful prose
You pull literary gold from your cache
But avoid your writing lows
By omitting words that are veritable trash.