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 |
|---|---|
| condign | deserved |
| accoutre | to provide with equipment or furnishings : outfit |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| sneak | to go stealthily or furtively : slink |
| morgue | a place where the bodies of dead persons are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy |
| frond | a large leaf (especially of a palm or fern) usually with many divisions |
| overweening | arrogant |
| shirk | to go stealthily : sneak |