GRE Word List
SHUN
to avoid deliberately and especially habitually
The meaning of the word shun is to avoid deliberately and especially habitually.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| amble | to go at or as if at an easy gait : saunter |
| seep | to flow or pass slowly through fine pores or small openings : ooze |
| dossier | a file containing detailed records on a particular person or subject |
| rolling | (of land) rising and falling in long gentle slopes; happening continuously by stages; Ex. rolling devolution of power to local governments |
| deplete | to empty of a principal substance |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| dehydrate | to remove bound water or hydrogen and oxygen from (a chemical compound) in the proportion in which they form water |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |