The word 'jolt' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a sudden, usually short, movement or sharp increase, or to refer to a sudden, surprising emotion. For example: "The sudden jolt of the train threw me off balance."
For those who know little about Turner's life, it's a jolt to accept that the creator of paintings of genius was a faulty bloke with an intermittently uncivil tongue, a tendency to grunt and a contradictory attitude towards women.
As many of us are heading back to work after the Christmas break, the reality of dealing with co-workers you dislike and tasks you detest can seem like an unnecessarily cruel jolt of reality.
So it was with a jolt that I came across the #IAmJada news story last month.
A coroner's ruling that a young woman killed herself while suffering from anorexia nervosa should be the jolt that leads to a "seismic shift" in the way eating disorders are addressed by policy makers, the chief executive of Australia's peak eating disorder support group says.
"By recognising suicide risk is heightened for someone suffering from anorexia nervosa, this finding can jolt a seismic shift in the way governments resource communities to address eating disorders".
In the corporatised and coal-company sponsored cocoon of a pre-G20 talkfest in Brisbane, the burst of vocal protest came like a sudden jolt of the reality of life outside.
A magnitude 6.6 aftershock struck an hour later and smaller aftershocks continued to jolt the region for hours.
This should jolt those on the left who once welcomed Ukip as splitting the vote on the right.
Red Dead Redemption made such a huge impact on a lot of players with its elegiac tale of revenge and remorse – and so being cast back into the world after the story ending is a weird jolt to the senses.
The bianconeri took a long while to shake their head clear and their equaliser 10 minutes into the second half felt almost like a jolt.
It is as if, after unquestioning decades of cohabitation, one partner woke up one morning with a jolt and blurted out: "I don't have much in common with you any more, if I ever did.
