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.
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| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
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| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| objective | expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| ribald | marked by coarseness or lewdness : crude |
| futile | serving no useful purpose : completely ineffective |
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