Vera
A female given name from Russian.
• Popular in the Anglo-Saxon world in the 1910s and the 1920s, particularly in England.
Vera
A surname of Spanish origin.
• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare
From Vera Lynn.
vera (plural veras)
(Cockney rhyming slang) skin (rolling paper for cigarettes)
vera (uncountable)
(finance) A second-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of vega with respect to changes in the risk-free interest rate, or equivalently the rate of change of rho with respect to changes in the volatility of the underlying asset.
• rhova
• (measure of derivative price sensitivity): Greeks (includes list of coordinate terms)
• AVRE, Rave, aver, evar, rave, vare
Source: Wiktionary
3 March 2025
(verb) hold one’s ground; maintain a position; be steadfast or upright; “I am standing my ground and won’t give in!”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
