spurn
SPURNverbMeaning to reject with scorn
Memory hook SP-URN: sniff and TURN away. Ivy offers Aunt Tia a homemade cookie, but Tia sniffs, turns up her nose and turns away: “Too plain for me.” She spurns it.
She spurned his offer of help and fixed the flat tire herself.
In context The proud inventor spurned every offer to buy his idea, insisting that no amount of money could tempt him to give it up.
Similar reject, rebuff, scorn, refuse
Opposite accept, welcome, embrace