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 |
|---|---|
| flair | a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something : talent |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| decorum | literary and dramatic propriety : fitness |
| patois | a dialect other than the standard or literary dialect |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |
| infamous | having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil |
| perjury | the voluntary violation of an oath or vow either by swearing to what is untrue or by omission to do what has been promised under oath : false swearing |
| tempestuous | of, relating to, or resembling a tempest : turbulent |
| catcall | a loud or raucous cry made especially to express disapproval (as at a sports event) |