She spurned the offer of a larger laboratory, preferring to stay where the specimens she studied were housed.
她拒绝了更大实验室的邀请，宁愿留在存放其研究标本的地方。
Which choice best defines “spurn”?
B — To reject with contempt.. “spurn” means To reject with contempt..
Which word means “To reject with contempt.”?
B — spurn. “spurn” means To reject with contempt..
spurn — To reject with contempt.. In Chinese: 摒弃；唾弃.
spurn is pronounced //spɜːn//.
She spurned the offer of a larger laboratory, preferring to stay where the specimens she studied were housed. (她拒绝了更大实验室的邀请，宁愿留在存放其研究标本的地方。)
reject, rebuff, scorn — all close in meaning to spurn (To reject with contempt.).
accept, welcome — each the opposite of spurn (To reject with contempt.).
Yes. spurn is on the SAT Prep Difficult list — the higher-register words that decide the hard questions. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
spurn → 一脚踢开。