GRE Word List
SHAMBLES
a meat market
The meaning of the word shambles is a meat market.
Random words
Word | Meaning |
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subside | to sink or fall to the bottom : settle |
nonchalance | the quality or state of being nonchalant |
pall | to lose strength or effectiveness |
indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
cataclysm | flood |
transition | a change or shift from one state, subject, place, etc. to another |
obituary | a notice of a person's death usually with a short biographical account |
infallible | incapable of error : unerring |
wage | a payment usually of money for labor or services usually according to contract and on an hourly, daily, or piecework basis |
hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration (such as "mile-high ice-cream cones") |