GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| unceremonious | not ceremonious : informal |
| rabies | an acute virus disease of the nervous system of mammals that is caused by a rhabdovirus (species Rabies virus of the genus Lyssavirus) usually transmitted through the bite of a rabid animal and that is characterized typically by increased salivation, abnormal behavior, and eventual paralysis and death when untreated |
| freebooter | pirate |
| implore | to make an earnest request to (someone) : beg |
| levitate | to rise or float in or as if in the air especially in seeming defiance of gravitation |
| anemia | a condition in which the blood is deficient in red blood cells, in hemoglobin, or in total volume |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |
| avuncular | suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality |
| crestfallen | having a drooping crest or hanging head |