This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
belie
Pronounced: (bee-LIE)
Verb:
1. be in contradiction with
2. represent falsely
From Vocabulary.com: ”We get belie from the Old English beleogan, which meant “to deceive by lying.” It suggests characteristics or behavior that inadvertently or deliberately hide the truth. To remember it, just think “be lying.”
Example:
“The steady rise in violent crime in the neighborhood belies the story that the area is rapidly gentrifying.”
