GRE Word List
DEBUNK
to expose the sham (see sham
The meaning of the word debunk is to expose the sham (see sham.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| orthography | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
| habitat | the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| straggle | to wander from the direct course or way : rove |
| smattering | superficial piecemeal knowledge |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| slap | to strike sharply with or as if with the open hand |
| eon | an immeasurably or indefinitely long period of time : age |
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |