GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| feral | of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| graphic | of or relating to the pictorial arts |
| compress | to press or squeeze together |
| grueling | trying or taxing to the point of exhaustion : punishing |
| memorial | serving to preserve remembrance : commemorative |
| rampant | rearing upon the hind legs with forelegs extended |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| supererogatory | observed or performed to an extent not enjoined or required |