GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| spasmodic | relating to or affected or characterized by spasm |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| quiescent | marked by inactivity or repose : tranquilly at rest |
| inveigh | to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently : rail |
| jettison | to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| coalesce | to grow together |
| maul | a heavy often wooden-headed hammer used especially for driving wedges |
| herbivorous | feeding on plants |