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 |
|---|---|
| responsiveness | giving response : constituting a response : answering |
| demure | reserved |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| choir | an organized company of singers (as in a church service) |
| disproportion | lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| obsequy | a funeral or burial rite |