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 |
|---|---|
| recess | the action of receding : recession |
| cloying | disgusting or distasteful by reason of excess |
| expletive | a syllable, word, or phrase inserted to fill a vacancy (as in a sentence or a metrical line) without adding to the sense |
| jaundice | yellowish pigmentation of the skin, tissues, and body fluids caused by the deposition of bile pigments |
| atrocity | a shockingly bad or atrocious act, object, or situation |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
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| umbrage | a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult |
| ignoble | characterized by baseness, lowness, or meanness |
| conclusive | of, relating to, or being a conclusion |