Rebut - to refute by evidence or argument.
Filigree-
delicate ornamental work of fine silver, gold, or other metal wires, esp. lacy jewelers' work of scrolls and arabesques.
| anything very delicate or fanciful: a filigree of frost. |
Oracle
| 1. | (esp. in ancient Greece) an utterance, often ambiguous or obscure, given by a priest or priestess at a shrine as the response of a god to an inquiry. |
| 2. | the agency or medium giving such responses. |
| 3. | a shrine or place at which such responses were given: the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. |
| 4. | a person who delivers authoritative, wise, or highly regarded and influential pronouncements. |
| 5. | a divine communication or revelation. |
| 6. | any person or thing serving as an agency of divine communication. |
| 7. | any utterance made or received as authoritative, extremely wise, or infallible. |
Tyranny
| 1. | arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority. |
| 2. | the government or rule of a tyrant or absolute ruler. |
| 3. | a state ruled by a tyrant or absolute ruler. |
| 4. | oppressive or unjustly severe government on the part of any ruler. |
| 5. | undue severity or harshness. |
| 6. | a tyrannical act or proceeding. |
Verbiage
| 1. | overabundance or superfluity of words, as in writing or speech; wordiness; verbosity. |
| 2. | manner or style of expressing something in words; wording: a manual of official verbiage. |
Dwindled
| 1. | to become smaller and smaller; shrink; waste away: His vast fortune has dwindled away. |
| 2. | to fall away, as in quality; degenerate. |
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