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 |
|---|---|
| camaraderie | a spirit of friendly good-fellowship |
| paltry | inferior |
| repository | a place, room, or container where something is deposited or stored : depository |
| kinetic | of or relating to the motion of material bodies and the forces and energy associated therewith |
| tactile | perceptible by touch : tangible |
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| gentry | upper or ruling class : aristocracy |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| slick | having a smooth surface : slippery |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |