GRE Word List
SHIRK
to go stealthily : sneak
The meaning of the word shirk is to go stealthily : sneak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| menial | a person doing menial work |
| coiffure | a style or manner of arranging the hair |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| swamp | a wetland often partially or intermittently covered with water |
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| conviction | the act or process of finding a person guilty of a crime especially in a court of law |
| catholic | roman catholic |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| polygamist | marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time compare polyandry |
| veracious | truthful |