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 |
|---|---|
| epigram | a concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought |
| waylay | to lie in wait for or attack (someone) from ambush |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| lavish | expending or bestowing profusely : prodigal |
| obliterate | to remove utterly from recognition or memory |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| counterpart | one of two corresponding copies of a legal instrument : duplicate |
| eminent | exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : prominent |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| polarize | to cause to vibrate in a definite pattern |