GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
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| quotidian | occurring every day |
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| martinet | a strict disciplinarian |
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| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
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| monograph | a learned treatise on a small area of learning |
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