Word to the Wise: Confute

To "confute" (kun-FYOOT) – from the Latin for "to put down to silence" – is to overwhelmingly prove to be false.

Example (as used by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in The New York Times): "A professor of geography does not feel obliged regularly to confute those who believe that the earth is flat."

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