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Definition of refute (verb)
to challenge; to disprove; to prove false

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This bold hypothesis would still be accepted by many anthropologists and historians, and even those who have tried to refute it are still working within its framework.
Now individuals and community groups had the facts at their fingertips to refute the placatory statements of the developers and corporate businessmen, and no longer had to rely on instinctive judgments to support their case.

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Definition of calumniate (verb)
to accuse falsely or maliciously in order to injure another's reputation; to slander

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This led us to agitate the question, whether legal redress could be obtained, even when a man's deceased relation was calumniated in a publication.

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Definition of allude (verb)
to refer indirectly to something; to hint

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The story alludes to part of the author's life.
Without stating that the defendant was an ex-convict, the prosecutor alluded to the fact by mentioning his length of unemployment.

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Definition of malice (noun)
hostility; malevolence

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Express malice may defeat a plea of qualified privilege, and in this sense malice means, first, personal spite in the contents of the statement or, secondly, personal spite in the mode or extent of the publication.

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Definition of dispel (verb)
to drive away; to scatter; to lessen

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The Masters Committee itself does nothing to dispel the feeling that the event is something special.

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Definition of exculpate (verb)
to free from guilt; to declare innocent

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The therapy session will exculpate the man from his guilty feelings.

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Definition of abdicate (verb)
to reject; to renounce; to abandon; to give up

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Due to their poor payment record, it may be necessary to abdicate our business relationship with the Durmount corporation.

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Definition of jettison (verb)
to throw goods overboard to lighten a vehicle; to discard; to get rid of

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To raise the balloon above the storm clouds, they had to jettison the ballast.

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Definition of dissent (verb)
differ in opinion; to dispute; to differ; to oppose

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They agreed that something had to be done, but dissented on how to do it.

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Definition of apprehend (verb)
to catch; to anticipate; to arrest; to understand; to conceive

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Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful, and so they lack this remnant of grace: maybe, if there is any harmony left for us to discover, maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man's spittle, sizzling on the grate.

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