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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
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