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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WordMeaning
panderto act as a pander
inquisitorone who inquires or makes inquisition
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
unimpeachablenot impeachable: such as
pterodactylany of various pterosaurs (suborder Pterodactyloidea) of the Late Jurassic and Cretaceous having a rudimentary tail and a beak with reduced dentition
decapitateto cut off the head of : behead
vociferousmarked by or given to vehement insistent outcry
rostera roll or list of personnel
adjacentnot distant : nearby
aversiona feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it