Sentence:  His own testimony is that he has read <WSD>very</WSD> little in the history of the South , implying that what he knows of that history has come to him orally and that he knows the world around him primarily from his own unassisted observation . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal