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 |
|---|---|
| healthy | enjoying good health |
| nondescript | belonging or appearing to belong to no particular class or kind : not easily described |
| toady | one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors : sycophant |
| mischance | bad luck |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| craven | lacking the least bit of courage : contemptibly fainthearted |
| intoxicate | to excite or stupefy by alcohol or a drug especially to the point where physical and mental control is markedly diminished |
| scavenge | to remove (dirt, refuse, etc.) from an area |
| tribune | a Roman official under the monarchy and the republic with the function of protecting the plebeian citizen from arbitrary action by the patrician magistrates |
| inasmuch_as | since; owing to the fact that |