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 |
|---|---|
| conciliatory | intended to gain goodwill or favor or to reduce hostility : tending or intended to conciliate |
| fitful | characterized by fits or paroxysms |
| usurp | to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right |
| natal | native |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| dolorous | causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| innocuous | producing no injury : harmless |
| ravel | to become unwoven, untwisted, or unwound : fray |
| embellish | to make beautiful with ornamentation : decorate |