GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| bivouac | a usually temporary encampment under little or no shelter |
| formality | compliance with formal or conventional rules : ceremony |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |
| apprehensive | viewing the future with anxiety or alarm : feeling or showing fear or apprehension about the future |
| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
| outlaw | a person excluded from the benefit or protection of the law |
| theoretical | existing only in theory : hypothetical |
| consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
| rudimentary | consisting in first principles : fundamental |
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |