Words: skew [MW]

(Skew is related to shy and shun.)

Main Entry: skew
Pronunciation: skyu
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English, to escape, skew, from Old North French escuer to shun, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German sciuhen to frighten off -- more at SHY
intransitive senses
1 : to take an oblique course
2 : to look askance
transitive senses
1 : to make, set, or cut on the skew
2 : to distort especially from a true value or symmetrical form (skewed statistical data"