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 |
|---|---|
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| garbled | made unclear or confusing : distorted or mixed up |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |
| probity | adherence to the highest principles and ideals : uprightness |
| rend | to remove from place by violence : wrest |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| furrow | a trench in the earth made by a plow |