GRE Word List
SHIRK
to go stealthily : sneak
The meaning of the word shirk is to go stealthily : sneak.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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unscathed | wholly unharmed : not injured |
chisel | a metal tool with a sharpened edge at one end used to chip, carve, or cut into a solid material (such as wood, stone, or metal) |
sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
sleazy | lacking firmness of texture : flimsy |
figurative | representing by a figure or resemblance : emblematic |
felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
officious | volunteering one's services where they are neither asked nor needed : meddlesome |
gainsay | to declare to be untrue or invalid |
profane | to treat (something sacred) with abuse, irreverence, or contempt : desecrate |