To aver (uh VUR) is to state with confidence, as though you know it to be the truth.
- “Yes, that’s the man,” Charlotte averred. “I recognize him for sure.”
To verify (VER i fye) is to prove that something is true, to confirm it.
- The police were able to verify Olin’s claim that he had been out of the country at the time
of the crime, so they let him go.