GRE Word List
SHUNT
to turn off to one side : shift
The meaning of the word shunt is to turn off to one side : shift.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ballast | a heavy substance (such as rocks or water) placed in such a way as to improve stability and control (as of the draft of a ship or the buoyancy of a balloon or submarine) |
| scourge | whip |
| retract | to draw back or in |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| vicarious | experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another |
| effrontery | shameless boldness : insolence |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| tonsure | the Roman Catholic or Eastern rite of admission to the clerical state by the clipping or shaving of a portion of the head |
| ejaculation | an act of ejaculating |
| abscission | the act or process of cutting off : removal |