GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
| nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
| pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| cataclysm | flood |
| transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
| obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
| infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
| wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |
