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 |
|---|---|
| uncanny | seeming to have a supernatural character or origin : eerie |
| simile | a figure of speech comparing two unlike things that is often introduced by like or as (as in cheeks like roses) compare metaphor |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| hoard | a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| rapport | a friendly, harmonious relationship |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| lunatic | affected with a severely disordered state of mind : insane |