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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presagesomething that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen
emasculateto deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken
implacablenot placable : not capable of being appeased, significantly changed, or mitigated
grandiloquenta lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language
recessionthe act or action of receding : withdrawal
macean aromatic spice consisting of the dried external fibrous covering of a nutmeg
isotopeany 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
hysteriaa psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral
anchora 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
reminiscenceapprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence