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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aberration | the fact or an instance of deviating or being aberrant especially from a moral standard or normal state |
penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
shrew | any of a family (Soricidae) of small chiefly nocturnal insectivores related to the moles and distinguished by a long pointed snout, very small eyes, and short velvety fur |
presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
machinations | an act of machinating |
ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
pernicious | highly injurious or destructive : deadly |
epistemologist | the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity |
disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |