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 |
|---|---|
| fusillade | a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| elaborate | planned or carried out with great care |
| expertise | the skill of an expert |
| fulcrum | prop |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| talisman | an object held to act as a charm to avert evil and bring good fortune |
| persevere | to persist in a state, enterprise, or undertaking in spite of counterinfluences, opposition, or discouragement |
| frolicsome | full of gaiety : playful |
| resign | relegate |