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 |
|---|---|
| verge | brink |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| subjective | of, relating to, or constituting a subject: such as |
| yeoman | an attendant or officer in a royal or noble household |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| guise | a form or style of dress : costume |
| quandary | a state of perplexity or doubt |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| untenable | not able to be defended |