GRE vocabulary
Execrate
To feel or express great loathing for; curse.
Example
"The protesters execrated the policies of the oppressive regime."
Etymology
From Latin exsecratus, past participle of exsecrari 'to curse, detest', from ex 'out' + sacer 'sacred' (originally 'to put out of the sacred sphere').
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