GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| lucid | suffused with light : luminous |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| inveterate | confirmed in a habit : habitual |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| dilute | attenuate |
| decelerate | to reduce the speed of : slow down |
| confluence | a coming or flowing together, meeting, or gathering at one point |
| refectory | a dining hall (as in a monastery or college) |