really

in accordance with truth or fact or reality

• “she was now truly American”
• “a genuinely open society”
• “they don”

in actual fact

• “to be nominally but not actually independent”
• “no one actually saw the shark”
• “large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt”

in fact (used as intensifiers or sentence modifiers)

• “in truth, moral decay hastened the decline of the Roman Empire”
• “really, you shouldn”
• “;”

used as intensifiers

• “real”
• “really”
• “rattling”
• “she was very gifted”
• “he played very well”
• “a really enjoyable evening”
• “I”
• “;”