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 |
|---|---|
| martial | of, relating to, or suited for war or a warrior |
| revile | to subject to verbal abuse : vituperate |
| nonsense | words or language having no meaning or conveying no intelligible ideas |
| magistrate | an official entrusted with administration of the laws: such as |
| trite | hackneyed or boring from much use : not fresh or original |
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| aesthetic | of, relating to, or dealing with aesthetics or the beautiful |
| suspense | the state of being suspended : suspension |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |