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 |
|---|---|
| promontory | a high point of land or rock projecting into a body of water |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| upright | perpendicular |
| tantalize | to tease or torment by or as if by presenting something desirable to the view but continually keeping it out of reach |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| granary | a storehouse for threshed grain |
| daunt | to lessen the courage of : cow |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| fugitive | running away or intending flight |
| plagiarize | to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (another's production) without crediting the source |