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 |
|---|---|
| gibberish | unintelligible or meaningless language: |
| elegy | a poem in elegiac couplets |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| bog | wet spongy ground |
| dilate | to become enlarged or widened |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| ensue | to strive to attain : pursue |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity of constitution or temperament : an individualizing characteristic or quality |
| practicable | capable of being put into practice or of being done or accomplished : feasible |