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 |
|---|---|
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| truism | an undoubted or self-evident truth |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| gourmet | a connoisseur of food and drink |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| palatial | of, relating to, or being a palace |
| sanguinary | bloodthirsty |
| virtue | conformity to a standard of right : morality |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |