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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|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| animus | a usually prejudiced and often spiteful or malevolent ill will |
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| submissive | submitting to others |
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| moodiness | subject to depression : gloomy |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| insularity | characteristic of an isolated people |
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