GRE Word List
SPURN
to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn
The meaning of the word spurn is to reject with disdain or contempt : scorn.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| factious | of or relating to faction: such as |
| deliberate | to think about or discuss issues and decisions carefully |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| catastrophe | a momentous tragic event ranging from extreme misfortune to utter overthrow or ruin |
| malignant | tending to produce death or deterioration |
| ruffian | a brutal person : bully |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |