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 |
|---|---|
| finesse | refinement or delicacy of workmanship, structure, or texture |
| pedigree | a register recording a line of ancestors |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| stymie | to present an obstacle to : stand in the way of |
| vacuous | emptied of or lacking content |
| tribunal | a court or forum of justice |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| insurgent | a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government |
| scraps | fragments of discarded or leftover food |