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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| dispassionate | not influenced by strong feeling |
| sanguine | marked by eager hopefulness : confidently optimistic |
| virtual | being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| culinary | of or relating to the kitchen or cookery |
| tome | book |
| dyspeptic | indigestion |
| plummet | to fall perpendicularly |
| indemnify | to secure against hurt, loss, or damage |