GRE Word List

SHAMBLES

a meat market

The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.

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WordMeaning
bivouaca usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter
formalitycompliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony
initiateto cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going
apprehensiveviewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future
ellipsisthe omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete
outlawa person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law
theoreticalexisting only in theory : hypothetical
consolidationthe act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated
rudimentaryconsisting in first principles : fundamental
supposititiousfraudulently substituted : spurious