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Shirk :: Shirk (v. t.) To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty..

Inevitableness :: Inevitableness (n.) The state of being unavoidable; certainty to happen.

Unavoidable :: Unavoidable (a.) Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles..

Discreet :: Discreet (superl.) Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent; sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious..

Evasion :: Evasion (n.) The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding..

Elude :: Elude (v. t.) To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or a blow..

Fortuitous :: Fortuitous (a.) Happening independently of human will or means of foresight; resulting from unavoidable physical causes.

Avoidance :: Avoidance (n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

Necessarily :: Necessarily (adv.) In a necessary manner; by necessity; unavoidably; indispensably.

Bantingism :: Bantingism (n.) A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London..

Pony :: Pony (n.) A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib.

Evade :: Evade (v. t.) To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an argument..

Avoid :: Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter..

Adroit :: Adroit (a.) Dexterous in the use of the hands or in the exercise of the mental faculties; exhibiting skill and readiness in avoiding danger or escaping difficulty; ready in invention or execution; -- applied to persons and to acts; as, an adroit mechanic, an adroit reply..

Blanch :: Blanch (v. t.) To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed..

Avoid :: Avoid (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.

Avoidable :: Avoidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped..

Esloin :: Esloin (v. t.) To remove; to banish; to withdraw; to avoid; to eloign.

Protestation :: Protestation (n.) Formerly, a declaration in common-law pleading, by which the party interposes an oblique allegation or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial..

Balk :: Balk (v. t.) To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk.

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