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 |
|---|---|
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| idyllic | pleasing or picturesque in natural simplicity |
| vituperative | uttering or given to censure : containing or characterized by verbal abuse |
| burnish | to make shiny or lustrous especially by rubbing |
| assent | to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after thoughtful consideration : concur |
| hierarchy | a division of angels |
| boorish | resembling or befitting a rude or insensitive person : resembling or befitting a boor |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |
| mendicant | beggar |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |