GRE Word List
SHIFT
to exchange for or replace by another : change
The meaning of the word shift is to exchange for or replace by another : change.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| implacable | not placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| mace | an aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| anchor | a device usually of metal attached to a ship or boat by a cable and cast overboard to hold it in a particular place by means of a fluke that digs into the bottom |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |