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 |
|---|---|
| chaffing | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| germinal | being in the earliest stage of development |
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| elastic | capable of recovering size and shape after deformation |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| ebullient | boiling |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| sophomoric | conceited and overconfident of knowledge but poorly informed and immature |