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 |
|---|---|
| scanty | limited or less than sufficient in degree, quantity, or extent |
| amity | friendship |
| nugatory | of little or no consequence : trifling |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| depict | to represent by or as if by a picture |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| convert | to bring over from one belief, view, or party to another |
| resplendent | shining brilliantly : characterized by a glowing splendor |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |