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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| immune | not susceptible or responsive |
| recession | the act or action of receding : withdrawal |
| intelligentsia | intellectuals who form an artistic, social, or political vanguard or elite |
| expurgate | to cleanse of something morally harmful, offensive, or erroneous |
| appropriate | especially suitable or compatible : fitting |
| cavil | to raise trivial and frivolous objection |
| inscrutable | not readily investigated, interpreted, or understood : mysterious |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |