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 |
|---|---|
| bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
| repulsion | the action of repulsing : the state of being repulsed |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| collation | a light meal allowed on fast days in place of lunch or supper |
| personify | to conceive of or represent as a person or as having human qualities or powers |
| topography | the art or practice of graphic delineation in detail usually on maps or charts of natural and man-made features of a place or region especially in a way to show their relative positions and elevations |
| berserk | an ancient Scandinavian warrior frenzied in battle and held to be invulnerable |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |