refute = 'repudiate'; catastrophic = 'extraordinarily severe'

[Ben Zimmer]

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>
> 2010 S. Palin in _New Yorker_ (Aug. 16) 27: Peaceful New Yorkers, pls refute
> the Ground Zero mosque plan if you believe catastrophic pain caused @ Twin
> Towers site is too raw, too real.

Why not just cite the tweet itself (from July 18)?

http://twitter.com/SarahPalinUSA/status/18855185436

via:
http://motivatedgrammar.wordpress.com/2010/07/20/refudiate-how-to-miscreate-a-word/

cited by me here:
http://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/2360/


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