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 |
|---|---|
| understate | to represent as less than is the case |
| ostentatious | attracting or seeking to attract attention, admiration, or envy often by gaudiness or obviousness : overly elaborate or conspicuous : characterized by, fond of, or evincing ostentation |
| bacchanalia | a Roman festival of Bacchus celebrated with dancing, song, and revelry |
| falsify | to prove or declare false : disprove |
| abdicate | to renounce a throne, high office, dignity, or function |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| sect | a dissenting or schismatic religious body |
| smother | to kill by depriving of air |
| vise | any of various tools with two jaws for holding work that close usually by a screw, lever, or cam |
| suture | a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body |