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 |
|---|---|
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| harass | exhaust |
| apoplexy | stroke |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| milieu | the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develops : environment |
| tithe | a tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment |
| veto | an authoritative prohibition : interdiction |
| luxuriant | yielding abundantly : fertile |
| bastard | a child born to parents who are not married to each other |
| arrogance | an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions |