GRE Word List
ESCHEW
to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun
The meaning of the word eschew is to avoid habitually especially on moral or practical grounds : shun.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| malign | evil in nature, influence, or effect : injurious |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| idle | not occupied or employed: such as |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| rent | property (such as a house) rented or for rent |
| feebleminded | impaired in intellectual ability : affected with intellectual disability |
| dominate | rule |
| sacrosanct | most sacred or holy : inviolable |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |