GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| meditation | a discourse intended to express its author's reflections or to guide others in contemplation |
| draught | a rough written version of something that is not yet in its final form; to write the first rough version of something such as a letter, speech, book or law; to choose people and send them somewhere for a special task |
| base | the bottom of something considered as its support : foundation |
| embrace | to clasp in the arms : hug |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| preclude | to make impossible by necessary consequence : rule out in advance |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| papyrus | a tall perennial sedge (Cyperus papyrus) of the Nile valley |
| tardy | moving slowly : sluggish |
| torque | a force that produces or tends to produce rotation or torsion |