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 |
|---|---|
| billow | wave |
| pathos | an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion |
| irreparable | not reparable : irremediable |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| splice | to unite (two ropes or two parts of a rope) by interweaving the strands |
| resuscitate | to revive from apparent death or from unconsciousness |
| fester | to generate pus |
| suffocate | to stop the respiration of (as by strangling or asphyxiation) |
| tedium | the quality or state of being tedious : tediousness |