Today's Word "gainsay"
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gainsay \gayn-SAY; GAYN-say\ (transitive verb) - 1 : To deny or dispute; to declare false or invalid. 2 : To oppose; to contradict.
"Owing to the company's cynical policy of inaction, suppression and hoping the problem would go away, there was nothing to gainsay from the stock's sudden and rapid decline."
Gainsay comes from Middle English geinseien, from gein-, "against" (from Old English gegn-, gean-) + sayen, "to say," from Old English secgan.
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