GRE Word List

DISABUSE

to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy

The meaning of the word disabuse is to free from error, misconception, or fallacy (see fallacy.

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WordMeaning
sustenancemeans of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living
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abjureto renounce upon oath
unassumingnot assuming : modest
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genealogyan account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an ancestor or from older forms
poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions
ironythe use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning
threadbarehaving the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby
jocularsaid or done as a joke : characterized by jesting : playful