What is the best synonym for contemptuos?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. “this fair country alone is settled by freeholders, the possessors of the soil they cultivate . .” in about 100 words, discuss the influence that being a “freeholder” has on a settler and, according to crevecoeur, the admirable qualities it engenders.

This is a word with multiple meanings but spelled the same

In at least one hundred words discuss how tradition vs change is a theme in things fall apart