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 |
|---|---|
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas) |
| contentious | likely to cause disagreement or argument |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| ruminant | an animal that chews the cud |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| patina | a usually green film formed naturally on copper and bronze by long exposure or artificially (as by acids) and often valued aesthetically for its color |
| fanaticism | fanatic outlook or behavior |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |