GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| underhand | in a clandestine manner |
| inequity | injustice |
| gentility | the condition of belonging to the gentry |
| mellifluous | having a smooth rich flow |
| self-indulgence | excessive or unrestrained gratification of one's own appetites, desires, or whims |
| illicit | not permitted : unlawful |
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| doddering | feeble |
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