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 |
|---|---|
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| savor | the taste or smell of something |
| voluminous | having or marked by great volume or bulk : large |
| obsolete | no longer in use or no longer useful |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| collected | gathered together |
| matrix | something within or from which something else originates, develops, or takes form |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |