GRE Word List
DERISION
the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt
The meaning of the word derision is the use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt.
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|---|---|
| verve | the spirit and enthusiasm animating artistic composition or performance : vivacity |
| liquidate | to determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of (indebtedness, damages, or accounts) |
| evasive | tending or intended to evade : equivocal |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| expedite | to accelerate the process or progress of : speed up |
| dormant | represented on a coat of arms in a lying position with the head on the forepaws |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |