SAT vocabulary
Disentangle
Free (something or someone) from entanglement; extricate.
Example
"It took a great deal of effort to disentangle the truth from the web of lies."
Etymology
From Old French 'desentagler', combining 'dis-' (undo) with 'entangle'.
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