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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| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| salutary | producing a beneficial effect : remedial |
| thrall | a state of servitude or submission |
| wastrel | vagabond |
| gratis | without charge or recompense : free |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| linger | to be slow in parting or in quitting something : tarry |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| theocracy | government of a state by immediate divine guidance or by officials who are regarded as divinely guided |
| bantering | to speak to or address in a witty and teasing manner |