GRE Word List
REFUTE
to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous
The meaning of the word refute is to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inestimable | incapable of being estimated or computed |
| aureole | a radiant light around the head or body of a representation of a sacred personage |
| hypnosis | a trancelike state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject |
| elevation | the height to which something is elevated: such as |
| outskirts | a part remote from the center : border |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| lucre | monetary gain : profit |
| tanner | one that tans hides |