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 |
|---|---|
| dribble | to issue sporadically and in small bits |
| supplant | to supersede (another) especially by force or treachery |
| natal | native |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| studious | assiduous in the pursuit of learning |
| crux | a puzzling or difficult problem : an unsolved question |
| amplify | to expand (something, such as a statement) by the use of detail or illustration or by closer analysis |
| hirsute | hairy |
| insensible | incapable or bereft of feeling or sensation: such as |
| kindred | of a similar nature or character : like |