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Biologist Bryson Voirin and colleagues have employed hat-like monitors to __________ long-standing misconceptions about the activity patterns of sloths. It was once widely believed that the pale-throated three-toed sloth and other sloths sleep all day. Data from the monitors reveal that in the wild sloths sleep about nine hours a day.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
A
analyze
B
codify
C
dispel
D
perpetuate