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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| despondent | feeling or showing extreme discouragement, dejection, or depression |
| domineer | to exercise arbitrary or overbearing control |
| notch | a V-shaped indentation |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| shrewd | marked by clever discerning awareness and hardheaded acumen |
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| buccaneer | any of the freebooters preying on Spanish ships and settlements especially in 17th century West Indies |
| hirsute | hairy |