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• v  belittle

• Collins' editors know that old words die hard and that some people will vilipend (regard with contempt) any execution without a fair trial.
• Apodeictic, muliebrity, mansuetude, even caducity, caliginosity, nitid, agrestic, roborant or vilipend have Latin or Greek roots that are very familiar to me and most high school .

• deprecate
• depreciate