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21experiment — A controlled manipulation of events, designed to produce observations that confirm or disconfirm one or more rival theories or hypotheses. To experiment is to put questions to nature, and the experimental method is contrasted with the passive… …
22Hellenistic biological sciences — R.J.Kankinson The five centuries that separate Aristotle’s death in 322 BC from Galen’s ascendancy in Rome in the latter part of the second century AD were fertile ones for the biological sciences, in particular medicine. Nor is the period solely …
23belie — Synonyms and related words: abjure, assert the contrary, be contrary to, blow sky high, blow up, burlesque, call into question, camouflage, caricature, challenge, color, conceal, contest, contradict, contravene, controvert, counter, cross,… …
24blow up — Synonyms and related words: accelerate, add to, adulate, aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, annoy, apotheosize, arouse, augment, awake, awaken, backfire, be angry, be excitable, beef up, belaud, belie, bellow, bepraise, blast, bless, blitz, bloat,… …
25break — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, about ship, about face, abrade, abrasion, abscond, abysm, abyss, accidentality, acclimate, acclimatize, accommodate, accommodation, accustom, actuarial calculation, adapt, adaptation, adjust, adjustment,… …
26confound — Synonyms and related words: abash, accurse, addle, adulterate, alloy, amaze, anathematize, answer, answer conclusively, appall, argue down, astonish, astound, awe, awestrike, baffle, balk, ball up, bamboozle, beat, bedaze, bedazzle, befog,… …
27confute — Synonyms and related words: answer, answer conclusively, antagonize, argue down, be antipathetic, be inimical, beat against, break, clash, collide, conflict, conflict with, confound, contradict, contrapose, contravene, controvert, counter,… …
28controvert — Synonyms and related words: abjure, air, analyze, answer, answer conclusively, argue down, assert the contrary, be at cross purposes, be contrary to, be opposed to, belie, break, call into question, canvass, challenge, clash, comment upon,… …
29deflate — Synonyms and related words: abridge, beat down, belie, blow sky high, blow up, break, cave, cave in, cheapen, collapse, compress, curtail, cut, cut back, cut down, cut prices, damp, dampen, decline, decrease, deduct, depreciate, depress,… …
30discredit — Synonyms and related words: agnosticism, asperse, aspersion, atheism, bad character, bad name, bad odor, bad report, bad reputation, bad repute, belie, belittle, besmirch, blacken, blemish, blot, blow sky high, blow up, brand, bring down, bring… …
