Vocabulary Word
Word: shirk
Definition: avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger
Definition: avoid (responsibility, work, etc.); malinger
Sentences Containing 'shirk'
The gallant combatant came well primed by his master the duke as to how he was to bear himself against the valiant Don Quixote of La Mancha; being warned that he must on no account slay him, but strive to shirk the first encounter so as to avoid the risk of killing him, as he was sure to do if he met him full tilt.
But next morning I perceived clearly enough that my curiosity regarding the Palace of Green Porcelain was a piece of self-deception, to enable me to shirk, by another day, an experience I dreaded.
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