Today's Word "incontrovertible"
Too clear to admit of dispute
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incontrovertible \in-kon-truh-VUR-tuh-buhl\ (adjective) - Too clear or certain to admit of dispute; indisputable; unquestionable.
"In bread, You were offered an incontrovertible banner: give man bread and he will worship You, for nothing is more incontrovertible than bread..." -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 'The Karamazov Brothers'
ncontrovertible is in-, "not" + controvertible, which is derived from Latin controversia, "a dispute," from controvertere, "to turn against, to turn in the opposite direction, to dispute" from contro-, "against" + vertere, "to turn." It is related to controversy.
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