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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| opus | work |
| contention | a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| larceny | the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently |
| raffle | to engage in a raffle |
| imperious | marked by arrogant assurance : domineering |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| char | any of a genus (Salvelinus) of small-scaled trouts with light-colored spots |