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 |
|---|---|
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| bleak | exposed and barren and often windswept |
| forthcoming | being about to appear or to be produced or made available |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |
| expansive | having a capacity or a tendency to expand |
| ornate | marked by elaborate rhetoric (see rhetoric |
| parallel | extending in the same direction, everywhere equidistant (see equidistant |