GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| disjunction | a sharp cleavage : disunion |
| healthy | enjoying good health |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| antipathy | a strong feeling of dislike |
| marsupial | any of an order (Marsupialia) of mammals comprising kangaroos, wombats, bandicoots, opossums, and related animals that do not develop a true placenta and that usually have a pouch on the abdomen of the female which covers the teats and serves to carry the young |
| induce | to move by persuasion or influence |
| dart | a light spear |