Jeepers!

Woah, four days without new words. This is unacceptable.

hap⋅less –adjective unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.

Description:

Help a hapless genie restore his magical powers one word at a time in this original challenge featuring three great ways to play. Use the genie's clues and your way with words to decipher a series of mystery words in the Genie's Quest. Unscramble letters in the Sultan's Challenge. See how long you can last in 1001 Nights. Collect treasures and awards along the way on your journey from the Lonely Pyramids to the Ivory Palace. A unique lexical challenge full of original puzzles, SandScript(TM) is a thrilling adventure for the word wizards everywhere.

Sentence: The water became extremely violent, and the hapless girl who was caught in the middle of the whirlpool soon became topless.

It's like... happy-less. as in, you're not happy, but you're a poor, poor unfortunate soul.

ver⋅i⋅si⋅mil⋅i⋅tude –noun

1.	the appearance or semblance of truth; likelihood; probability: The play lacked verisimilitude.

2.	something, as an assertion, having merely the appearance of truth.

The Problem of Verisimilitude

The famous problem of verisimilitude flows from this (Musgrave, unpublished):

Realists . . . seem forced to give up either their belief in progress or their belief in the falsehood of all extant scientific theory. I say ‘seemed forced’ because Popper is a realist who wants to give up neither of them. Popper has the radical idea that the conflict between (1), (2), and (3) is only an apparent one, that progress with respect to truth is possible through a succession of falsehoods because one false theory can be closer to the truth than another. In this way Popper discovered the (two-fold) problem of verisimilitude;

(A*) Can we explain how one theory can be closer to the truth, or has greater verisimilitude than another?

(B*) Can we show that scientific change has sometimes led to theories which are closer to the truth than their predecessors?

Note: Closeness to the truth is not the same as the probability of truth. A simple example shows this: A: The time on this stopped watch is correct to within one minute. B: The time of my watch (which is 2 minutes fast) is accurate to within one minute. Both hypotheses are false. But B is closer to the truth than A. But A is more probable than B, because the probability of A being true, though small, is non-zero. But the probability of my watch being accurate to within one minute, given what we know about my watch, is zero.

Sentence: I could understand the concept of the movie, but I found the situation void of verisimilitude.