GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prefigure | to show, suggest, or announce by an antecedent type, image, or likeness |
| extort | to obtain from a person by force, intimidation, or undue or illegal power : wring |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| odoriferous | yielding an odor : odorous |
| lax | loose |
| wreak | bring about |
| calamity | a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering |
| commemorate | to call to remembrance |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| jingoist | extreme chauvinism or nationalism marked especially by a belligerent foreign policy |