GRE Word List
SHIRK
to go stealthily : sneak
The meaning of the word shirk is to go stealthily : sneak.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| insatiable | incapable of being satisfied : quenchless |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| retaliate | to return like for like |
| bequeath | to give or leave by will (see will |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| truculence | the quality or state of being truculent |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| faculty | ability |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |