GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| privation | an act or instance of depriving : deprivation |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| galleon | a heavy square-rigged sailing ship of the 15th to early 18th centuries used for war or commerce especially by the Spanish |
| headlong | headfirst |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| fetter | a chain or shackle for the feet |