Vocabulary Word
Word: spurn
Definition: reject disdainfully; scorn; Ex. She spurned all offers of help.
Definition: reject disdainfully; scorn; Ex. She spurned all offers of help.
Sentences Containing 'spurn'
Senor Don Quixote, have you observed the comeliness of my lady the duchess, that smooth complexion of hers like a burnished polished sword, those two cheeks of milk and carmine, that gay lively step with which she treads or rather seems to spurn the earth, so that one would fancy she went radiating health wherever she passed?
He said, “a fancy would sometimes take a _Yahoo_ to retire into a corner, to lie down, and howl, and groan, and spurn away all that came near him, although he were young and fat, wanted neither food nor water, nor did the servant imagine what could possibly ail him.
Spurn the idol Bell, and the hideous dragon; turn from the wrath to come; mind thine eye, I say; oh!
More Vocab Words
::: retroactive - taking effect before its enactment (as a law) or imposition (as a tax); (of a law) having effect on the past as well as the future::: squander - waste; spend foolishly
::: encircle - surround
::: expos - \'e public revelation of something discreditable
::: extrinsic - external; not essential or inherent; extraneous; OP. intrinsic
::: cameo - shell or jewel carved in relief; star's special appearance in a minor role in a film
::: engaged - employed; busy; betrothed; involved in conflict
::: methodical - systematic; N. method: systematic method of procedure
::: maul - handle roughly; batter; injure by beating; Ex. mauled by his overexcited fans; N: heavy long-handled hammer
::: heresy - opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion; ADJ. heretical; CF. heretic
