GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| muted | being mute : silent |
| acrimonious | angry and bitter : caustic, biting, or rancorous especially in feeling, language, or manner |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| synoptic | affording a general view of a whole |
| cessation | a temporary or final ceasing (as of action) : stop |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| brawn | the flesh of a boar |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |