GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| slink | to go or move stealthily or furtively (as in fear or shame) : steal |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| stint | a period of time spent at a particular activity |
| indolent | averse to activity, effort, or movement : habitually lazy |
| postulate | demand |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| vicissitude | the quality or state of being changeable : mutability |
| guffaw | a loud or boisterous burst of laughter |
| pretext | a purpose or motive alleged or an appearance assumed in order to cloak the real intention or state of affairs |
| repeal | to rescind or annul by authoritative act |