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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| titillate | to excite pleasurably : arouse by stimulation |
| certitude | the state of being or feeling certain |
| invulnerable | incapable of being wounded, injured, or harmed |
| incapacitate | to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable |
| transient | passing especially quickly into and out of existence : transitory |
| frugality | the quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift |
| tribute | something given or contributed voluntarily as due or deserved |
| defame | to harm the reputation of by communicating false statements about : to harm the reputation of by libel (see libel |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |