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 |
|---|---|
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| incorporeal | not corporeal : having no material body or form |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| proviso | an article or clause (as in a contract) that introduces a condition |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| arrears | the state of being behind in the discharge of obligations |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| curb | an edging (as of concrete) built along a street to form part of a gutter |