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 |
|---|---|
| chauvinist | an attitude of superiority toward members of the opposite sex |
| reparation | a repairing or keeping in repair |
| vex | to bring trouble, distress, or agitation to |
| impoverish | to make poor |
| prehensile | adapted for seizing or grasping especially by wrapping around |
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| pontifical | episcopal attire |
| rebuff | to reject or criticize sharply : snub |