GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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|---|---|
| flagrant | conspicuously offensive |
| regiment | a military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions |
| saccharine | of, relating to, or resembling that of sugar |
| extemporaneous | composed, performed, or uttered on the spur of the moment : impromptu |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| assent | to agree to or approve of something (such as an idea or suggestion) especially after thoughtful consideration : concur |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| thwart | to oppose successfully : defeat the hopes or aspirations of |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |