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 |
|---|---|
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| dogged | marked by stubborn determination |
| eventual | contingent |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
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| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| rescind | to take away : remove |