Word: dispell
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...facilitates deeply understanding the challenges of African countries and working to practically meet them. Such knowledge includes history, political science, sociology, anthropology, (development) economics, public health, and environmental studies. Study of African culture and arts is of secondary importance, but is also desirable to deepen appreciation for Africa and dispel the pervasive stereotype of Africa as a primitive backwater. Reality and morality require a deep and nuanced study a troubled but not hopeless continent. This endeavor would not only confer upon Harvard further academic notability, but civic and humanitarian distinction as well...
...name every college in the Ivy League. He believes that an aura of mystery surrounds Harvard, Yale, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, and Columbia. He hopes his guide will help prospective students take an inside look at the Ivy League so that they might be able to dispel, or in some cases confirm, rumors that are constantly circulating about the eight colleges...
...Rice's stop in Romania, however, failed to dispel criticism from other quarters. She is under fire over a series of reports that the CIA established clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes...
...taken the time to read it all, but he’s not the only one. The main changes to the Wikipedia article which earned it its ‘disputed’ label were made by a “a current student” trying to dispel the “common misperception…that schools such as Yale, Princeton, and Stanford are pretty much interchangeable with Harvard.” (Harvard, he or she suggested, is in fact far better.)We also seem overrepresented in the numbers of our critics. In response to the section...
...almost have a professional obligation, at this point, to do what you can to dispel this misinformation that’s being perpetrated on the American public,” Hanken says...