refel means To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
REFEL — [Verb] To refute or disprove an argument, or to confute a person. From the Latin refellere, from re- ("back, against") + fallere ("to deceive, to be wrong"). Unlike "refute," which claims a clean, logical victory, or "confute," which implies a silencing, decisive blow, to refel is the quiet, patient act of turning a deception back upon itself. It is the slow unpicking of a flawed premise, the careful slide of a counterexample into a gap in the reasoning, the measured correction of a record long after the speaker has left the room—the quiet dignity of a correction that has outlived both the error and the world that cared about it.
verb
- To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).“Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]”