GRE Word List
DESPISE
to look down on with disrespect or aversion
The meaning of the word despise is to look down on with disrespect or aversion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slacken | to make less active : slow up |
| mulct | fine |
| laggard | lagging or tending to lag : slow especially compared to others of the same kind |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |
| insurrection | an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government |
| impassable | incapable of being passed, traveled, crossed, or surmounted |
| gorge | a narrow passage through land |
| tact | a keen sense of what to do or say in order to maintain good relations with others or avoid offense |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |