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.

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WordMeaning
eugenicrelating to or fitted for the production of good offspring
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subsistencereal being : existence
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primatea bishop who has precedence in a province, a group of provinces, or a nation
coronera usually elected public officer who is typically not required to have specific medical qualifications and whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which there is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes compare medical examiner
congruencethe quality or state of agreeing, coinciding, or being congruent
analogoussimilar or comparable to something else either in general or in some specific detail
poulticea soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions