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 |
|---|---|
| conscript | a conscripted person (such as a military recruit) |
| abstract | disassociated from any specific instance |
| debunk | to expose the sham (see sham |
| profound | having intellectual depth and insight |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| cornice | the molded and projecting horizontal member that crowns an architectural composition see column illustration |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| pinion | the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges |
| virulent | marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course |
| ancestry | line of descent : lineage |