GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| asperity | roughness of manner or of temper : harshness of behavior or speech that expresses bitterness or anger |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| deference | respect and esteem due a superior or an elder |
| congeal | to change from a fluid to a solid state by or as if by cold |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| addle | rotten |
| pulchritude | physical comeliness |
| monolithic | of, relating to, or resembling a monolith : huge |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |