GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| sever | to put or keep apart : divide |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
| isotope | any of two or more species of atoms of a chemical element with the same atomic number and nearly identical chemical behavior but with differing atomic mass or mass number and different physical properties |
| temerity | unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition : rashness |
| infringe | to encroach upon in a way that violates law or the rights of another |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |