GRE Word List
SHIRK
to go stealthily : sneak
The meaning of the word shirk is to go stealthily : sneak.
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|---|---|
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| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| stockade | a line of stout posts set firmly to form a defense |
| macabre | having death as a subject : comprising or including a personalized representation of death |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| poise | balance |
| metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them (as in drowning in money) |
| germinate | to cause to sprout or develop |
| nominal | of, relating to, or being a noun or a word or expression taking a noun construction |
| automaton | a mechanism that is relatively self-operating |