GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| pragmatic | relating to matters of fact or practical affairs often to the exclusion of intellectual or artistic matters : practical as opposed to idealistic |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| hoax | to trick into believing or accepting as genuine something false and often preposterous |
| hackneyed | lacking in freshness or originality |
| oaf | a stupid person : boob |
| outcast | one that is cast out or refused acceptance (as by society) : pariah |
| rebuttal | the act of rebutting especially in a legal suit |
| stammer | to make involuntary stops and repetitions in speaking : stutter |
| truncate | to shorten by or as if by cutting off |
| aerie | the nest of a bird on a cliff or a mountaintop |