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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary

Shun

'Shun' means both 'avoid' and 'look down upon'?
  

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Yes. Shunning is a social rejection of someone generally because the person in question has made some terrible mistake in judgment or behaves in a way that is not acceptable to the group. If someone were to continue making negative comments to another because of his or her race or religion, for example, the larger group would not want to associate with that person anymore.

  • Yes.
  • Shunning is a social rejection of someone generally because the person in question has made some terrible mistake in judgment or behaves in a way that is not acceptable to the group.
  • If someone were to continue making negative comments to another because of his or her race or religion, for example, the larger group would not want to associate with that person anymore.
  • Since humans are social beings, shunning usually hurts the individual a great deal, so it works.
  • Sometimes shunning is a formal consequence in a society, while other times it just happens among people.
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Yes. Shunning is a social rejection of someone generally because the person in question has made some terrible mistake in judgment or behaves in a way that is not acceptable to the group. If someone were to continue making negative comments to another because of his or her race or religion, for example, the larger group would not want to associate with that person anymore. Since humans are social
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Shun is typically used to refer to avoiding someone or something. It's action may be looked upon as "to look down upon" because it is a negative action but that may not always be the case.

You may shun someone because you don't like them and not because you are looking down on them.

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