GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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|---|---|
| whit | the smallest part or particle imaginable : bit |
| enamored | affected by strong feelings of love, admiration, or fascination |
| venom | a toxic substance produced by some animals (such as snakes, scorpions, or bees) that is injected into prey or an enemy chiefly by biting or stinging and has an injurious or lethal effect |
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| integrity | firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility |
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| crone | a cruel or ugly old woman |
| protuberance | something that is protuberant |
| irreproachable | not reproachable : blameless |
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