Part of Speech: Adjective

Definition: Committing No Error

Source: Merriam Webster Dictionary

Found in “America” by Claude McKay, line 13

The word “unnerving” originally means faultless. In that line, it means that time has no faults, that it’s perfect.

Ostensibly

Part of Speech– Adverb

Origin- Ostensible ( Adjective)

Definition– is used to describe something that seems to be true or is officially stated to be true, but about which you or other people have doubts.

Source: Collins Dictionary

Found in the essay ” Reading a poem; 20 strategies ” by Mark Yakich, in the fifteenth strategy

The definition of the word Ostensible or the word Ostensibly ( as used in the reading), helps me to understand it as a word used to describe something that may be true, but may not have facts that support it, hence might cause people to doubt it.