GRE Word List
SHUN
to avoid deliberately and especially habitually
The meaning of the word shun is to avoid deliberately and especially habitually.
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|---|---|
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| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| historical | of, relating to, or having the character of history |
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| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| spruce | to make spruce |
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| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |