contemn

v : look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to

work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't

catch on immediately" [syn: {despise}, {scorn}, {disdain}]

context

That which surrounds, and gives meaning to, something else.

In a {grammar} it refers to the symbols before and

after the symbol under consideration. If the syntax of a

symbol is independent of its context, the grammar is said to

be {context-free}.