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 |
|---|---|
| vulnerable | capable of being physically or emotionally wounded |
| dispatch | to send off or away with promptness or speed |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals : not continuous |
| potentate | ruler |
| zenith | the point of the celestial sphere that is directly opposite the nadir and vertically above the observer see azimuth illustration |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| succumb | to yield to superior strength or force or overpowering appeal or desire |
| flay | to strip off the skin or surface of : skin |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| havoc | wide and general destruction : devastation |