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 |
|---|---|
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| dwindle | to become steadily less : shrink |
| vent | to provide with a vent |
| nip | to catch hold of and squeeze tightly between two surfaces, edges, or points : pinch |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |
| horde | a political subdivision of central Asian nomads |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| demolition | the act of demolishing |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| somatic | of, relating to, or affecting the body especially as distinguished from the germplasm |