GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| angular | forming an angle : sharp-cornered |
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| comely | pleasurably conforming to notions of good appearance, suitability, or proportion |
| broach | brooch |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| farce | stuff |
| withstand | to stand up against : oppose with firm determination |
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| vendor | one that vends : seller |