abominate - vocabulary



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abominate - verb

To dislike strongly; to regard with loathing; to execrate.
Now is as good a time as ever to revisit the history of the Crusades, or the sorry history of partition in Kashmir, or the woes of the Chechens and Kosovars. But the bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face, and there's no point in any euphemism about it. What they abominate about "the West," to put it in a phrase, is not what Western liberals don't like and can't defend about their own system, but what they do like about it and must defend: its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state. 

—Christopher Hitchens ”Against Rationalization” The Nation, October 8, 2001
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